chocolate-cherry star

AUTHOR
Melissa Olsen
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
120 mins
TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 1
  • 200 g Butter or margarine
  • 200 g Sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 3 Eggs (size M)
  • 2 coated tablespoons of cocoa powder
  • 2 coated Tsp Baking Powder
  • 200 g Flour
  • 1 package (150 g) Half-
  • 7-10 Tbsp bitter couverture
  • 3 sheets white gelatine
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS flaked almonds
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS Pistachio kernels
  • 1 package (48 g) Bark chocolate
  • 1/2 glass (340 ml) Shadow-
  • 7-10 Tbsp morellen
  • 1 (100 g) Dark chocolate bar
  • 7-10 Tbsp chocolate
  • 2 (200 g each) Mugs
  • 7-10 Tbsp Whipped cream
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease

Directions

  1. 1

    Cream fat, sugar, vanillin sugar and salt. Stir in eggs bit by bit. Mix cocoa, baking powder and flour and stir into the dough in a sieve. Grease a star shape (1 litre capacity).

  2. 2

    Pour in the dough. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 50 minutes. Turn the star out of the tin onto a cake rack and let it cool down. Soak gelatine in cold water.

  3. 3

    Melt the chocolate coating in a hot water bath. Cut the star once across. Cover the top of the star with the chocolate coating. Roast the flaked almonds in a dry pan and let them cool down. Press the pistachio quarters, bark chocolate and flaked almonds into the moist couverture.

  4. 4

    Drain the cherries on a sieve. Roughly chop the chocolate. Squeeze the gelatine and dissolve. Whip cream until stiff and stir in gelatine. Fold in chocolate and cherries. Spread the chocolate-cherry cream on the lower half of the star, put together.

  5. 5

    Results in about 16 pieces.