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🍽️ Chocolate Nut Cake
497 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 5 Eggs
- Salt
- 125 g Sugar
- 150 g Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 100 g peeled ground Walnuts
- 4 Eggs
- 100 g Sugar
- 300 ml Whipping Cream (at least 30% fat content)
- 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 20 peeled Walnut Kernel Halves
Instructions
- 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
- 2. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff.
- 3. Beat the egg yolks creamy with the sugar.
- 4. Mix flour and baking powder.
- 5. Sift the flour mixture over the egg yolk mixture.
- 6. Add the almonds and stir everything gently.
- 7. Fold in the beaten egg whites carefully into the batter.
- 8. Pour the batter into a springform pan lined with baking paper.
- 9. Bake the dough for 35 to 40 minutes in the oven.
- 10. For the cream, separate the eggs.
- 11. Beat the egg yolks with the sugar over a hot but not boiling water bath until foamy.
- 12. Roughly chop the remaining chocolate.
- 13. Melt the chocolate over another hot water bath.
- 14. Carefully stir the melted chocolate into the egg yolk mixture.
- 15. Mix well.
- 16. Let the cream cool slightly.
- 17. Beat the cream with the powdered sugar until stiff.
- 18. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt separately until stiff.
- 19. Fold the whipped cream carefully into the chocolate mixture.
- 20. Fold the beaten egg whites carefully into the chocolate mixture.
- 21. Place the cream in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
- 22. Remove the finished sponge cake from the oven.
- 23. Release the sponge cake from the pan.
- 24. Let the sponge cake cool on a wire rack.
- 25. Cut the sponge cake horizontally into two halves.
- 26. Place a cake ring around the bottom layer.
- 27. Spread half of the chocolate cream on the bottom layer.
- 28. Place the second layer on top.
- 29. Cover the surface and the sides with the remaining cream.
- 30. Dust the surface with cocoa.
- 31. Garnish the cake with walnut halves.
- 32. Cut the cake into pieces.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 497
- Protein: 11 g · Fett/Fat: 31 g · Carbs: 59 g