Molehill Cake
(4)
50 min
I make this cake for every birthday party. Because no flour is used, it can also be eaten by children with a gluten allergy. You can buy chocolate covered cherries from the supermarket instead of making your own.
Claudia_Meilinger
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Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 75g softened butter
- 100g caster sugar
- 1 bar plain chocolate
- 125g ground almonds
- 6 eggs, separated
- 1 bar plain chocolate, melted
- 1 jar glace cherries
- 2 200ml whipping cream
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:50min
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4.
- Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Melt chocolate in a double boiler (or in short bursts in the microwave) and mix with the almonds into the butter mixture.
- Separate the eggs and mix the egg yolks to the mixture.
- Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into the mixture. Pour into a greased round cake tin and bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Allow to cool.
- Cover the cherries with the melted chocolate and leave to harden. Whip the cream.
- Make a hollow in the middle of the cake and fill with cherries and cream. Sprinkle the crumbs from hollow over the cream again.
