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🍽️ Chocolate Cake with Caramel Filling
892 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 120 g dark chocolate couverture
- 150 g butter
- 100 g sugar
- 4 eggs
- 60 ml milk
- 200 g flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 100 g ground almond kernels
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 250 g soft caramel candies
- 400 ml whipping cream
- 200 g mascarpone
- 1 packet cream stabilizer
Instructions
- 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
- 2. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt it over a bowl of hot water.
- 3. Let the melted chocolate cool down.
- 4. Beat the butter with the sugar until fluffy.
- 5. Stir in the eggs one by one into the butter mixture.
- 6. Stir the cooled chocolate into the butter mixture.
- 7. Mix the flour with the cocoa powder, baking powder, and almonds.
- 8. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture.
- 9. Pour in the milk and stir everything together.
- 10. Pour the batter into a springform pan lined with baking paper.
- 11. Smooth the surface.
- 12. Bake the cake for approx. 35 minutes in the oven.
- 13. Perform the skewer test to check if the cake is done.
- 14. Loosen the cake from the pan while it is slightly cooled.
- 15. Let the cake cool completely on a wire rack.
- 16. Place the cake back inside a cake ring.
- 17. Cut 4 to 5 caramel candies into small pieces and set them aside.
- 18. Heat the remaining candies with 200 ml of cream in a small saucepan.
- 19. Stir until the candies have melted.
- 20. Let the caramel cream cool down completely.
- 21. Stir the cooled caramel cream into the mascarpone.
- 22. Whip the remaining cream until stiff.
- 23. Fill 4 to 5 tablespoons of the whipped cream into a piping bag with a star tip.
- 24. Fold the remaining whipped cream into the mascarpone cream.
- 25. Spread the cream smoothly over the cake base.
- 26. Decorate the surface with a cake comb.
- 27. Place the cake in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
- 28. Garnish the cake with the small caramel pieces.
- 29. Add dollops of cream on top of the cake.
- 30. Carefully remove the cake ring.
- 31. Cut the cake into slices and serve.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 892
- Protein: 12 g · Fett/Fat: 63 g · Carbs: 68 g