This recipe is perfect for people who, like me, don't like marzipan but want to have this cake naturally decorated during the Christmas celebrations. I use a few sprigs of fresh holly from my garden to decorate this cake.
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Ingredients
Serves: 10
For the cake
225g unsalted butter
225g golden caster sugar
4 eggs
225g self raising flour
85g ground almonds
60g chocolate chips
For the ganache
300ml double cream
400g dark chocolate, chopped
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Method Prep:20min › Cook:1hr › Ready in:1hr20min
For the cake:
Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease a 20cm springform cake tin and line the edge with a strip of baking parchment (cut taller than the side of tin to allow for a 'collar').
In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and the sugar until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until well mixed. Sift in the flour then add the ground almonds and chocolate chips and mix well. Transfer to the prepared cake tin and smooth the top.
Bake in the oven for 45 minutes until golden then cover with aluminium foil and cook for a further 15 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven, remove the foil and allow to cool fully in the tin.
For the ganache:
Once the cake is cooled, pour the cream into a saucepan over a high heat and bring almost to the boil. Remove immediately from the heat and stir in the chocolate until melted. Allow to cool (but not so much that it is setting) then pour the chocolate over the cooled cake.
Once the chocolate is fully set, pop the cake out of the springform tin and peel away the baking parchment leaving a smooth outside edge. Decorate with fresh holly (leaves only, do not eat) and a dusting of icing sugar. Slice and serve.