Cherry mole cake

AUTHOR
Bill Macdonald
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 76
An airy chocolate base, fruity cherries, the creamy cream filling and cake sprinkles on top - Mole cake is cult!
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 3 Eggs (size M)
  • 125 g + 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 60 g Flour
  • 1 package Chocolate Flavoured Pudding Powder
  • 1 1/2 TSP. Baking Powder
  • 1 (500 g) Mug cherry grits
  • 500 g Whipped cream
  • 2 packages Vanillin sugar
  • 1 TEASPOON Espresso powder (soluble bean coffee)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Separate eggs. Beat the egg whites and 4 tablespoons of cold water with the whisk of the hand mixer until stiff, adding 125 g of sugar and salt. Add egg yolks and fold in. Mix flour, pudding powder and baking powder, sieve onto the egg foam and fold in carefully.

  2. 2

    Line the bottom of a springform pan (26 cm Ø) with baking paper. Fill in sponge cake mixture and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 25-30 minutes. Let the sponge cake cool down in the tin for about 10 minutes, take it out and let it cool down on a cake rack for about 20 minutes.

  3. 3

    Sponge cake base, hollow out except for an approx. 1 cm wide edge and a 1 cm thick base. Lift the base onto a cake plate. Pour cherry groats onto the sponge cake base, except for 2-3 tbsp.

  4. 4

    Whip cream, 1 tablespoon sugar, vanilla sugar and espresso powder until stiff with the whisks of the hand mixer. Spread the espresso cream slightly dome-shaped on the filled sponge cake base and add the remaining cherry groats as a blob. Crumble the sponge cake pieces and sprinkle them on the cake. Dust with icing sugar

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
280 kcal
CARBS
32 g
FATS
15 g
PROTEINS
4 g