Chocolate nut cake
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1 hour 10 min
My two favorite cake flavours in one cake: chocolate and almonds or walnuts with a a thick chocolate icing.
AnnaLena
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Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- 8 eggs, separated
- 30 to 50g caster sugar
- 200g butter, softened
- 200g dark chocolate, melted
- 150 to 200g icing sugar
- 1/2 lemon, zested
- 200g ground almonds or walnuts
- 1 to 2 tablespoons rum
- 150g plain flour
- 50g cornflour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 200g dark chocolate for the icing (70% cacao)
Method
Prep:25min ›
Cook:45min ›
Ready in:1hr10min
- Grease a springform tin and preheat oven to 190 C / GAs 5.
- In a bowl beat egg whites with sugar until stiff.
- In a separate bowl whisk together butter, melted chocolate, icing sugar und egg yolks with a handmixer, until foamy. Add lemon zest, ground almonds and rum and stir well.
- In another bowl mix flour with corn starch and baking powder and stir into the egg yolk mixture. Carefully fold in the stiff egg whites.
- Transfer mixture to the prepared springform tin and bake in the preheated oven until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, about 45 to 60 minutes. After 30 minutes, cover the cake with greaseproof paper to prevent it from getting too dark.
- Remove cake from the tin and let cool down completely on a cooling rack.
- Melt chocolate for the glaze in a double broiler and and spread over cooled cake. Let set before cutting.
