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🍰 Christmas Cake

1207 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• Eggs 5 pcs.
• Salt pinch
• Sugar 150 g
• Wheat flour, Type 405 150 g
• Cornstarch 25 g
• Baking powder 2 tsp.
• Cocoa powder 20 g
• Butter 400 g
• Icing sugar 300 g
• Vanilla sugar 1 tsp.
• Macarons 4 pcs.
• Cinnamon stars 4 pcs.
• Sugar sticks 5 pcs.
• Fruit 100 g

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius. Set it to top and bottom heat.
2. 2. Separate the eggs. Carefully remove the yolk from the egg white.
3. 3. Put the egg white and a pinch of salt into a bowl.
4. 4. Beat the egg white with a hand mixer until stiff. The mixture should form stiff peaks.
5. 5. Put the egg yolks and sugar into a second bowl.
6. 6. Whisk the egg yolks and sugar for about 5 minutes until foamy.
7. 7. Gently fold the stiffly beaten egg white into the yolk-sugar mixture spoon by spoon.
8. 8. Sift flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and cocoa over the batter.
9. 9. Gently stir the dry ingredients into the batter with a rubber spatula.
10. 10. Line the bottom of a 28 cm springform pan with baking paper.
11. 11. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
12. 12. Bake the cake in the oven for about 30 minutes.
13. 13. Cover the surface with aluminum foil towards the end of the baking time if it gets too dark.
14. 14. Let the cake cool completely on a wire rack.
15. 15. Beat soft butter, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar, and salt in a bowl until creamy.
16. 16. Cut the cooled cake horizontally into three equal layers.
17. 17. Spread the butter cream evenly over each of the three cake layers.
18. 18. Stack the layers on top of each other.
19. 19. Coat the outside of the cake completely with the remaining cream.
20. 20. Decorate the cake as you like with macarons, cinnamon stars, candy canes, and fruit.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 1207
• Protein: 12 g · Fett/Fat: 65 g · Carbs: 146 g