Chocolate espresso cream cake

AUTHOR
Bo Carpenter
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 5
COOK TIME
45 mins
TOTAL TIME
45 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 150 g + some flour
  • 50 g + 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 2 packages Vanillin sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 100 g cold + some butter
  • 200 g Dark chocolate coating
  • 150 g + 250 g + 250 g whipped cream
  • 3 deleted Tsp Espresso powder (instant)
  • 1 package Cream stabiliser
  • 2 tablespoons (20 ml) Rum
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cocoa
  • 7-10 Tbsp Truffle balls for decoration

Directions

  1. 1

    Knead 150 g flour, 50 g sugar, 1 vanillin sugar, 1 pinch of salt and 100 g butter in pieces first with a hand mixer and then briefly with your hands until smooth. Cover and chill for about 30 minutes.

  2. 2

    Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø) and dust with flour. Roll out the dough on some flour in the size of a mould bottom. Place in the mould, prick with a fork more often. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200°C/circulating air: 175°C/gas: level 3) for about 12 minutes.

  3. 3

    Finely chop the chocolate coating. Bring 150 g cream to the boil in a small pot, remove from the heat. Melt the couverture in it while stirring. Cool down for about 20 minutes.

  4. 4

    Close a cake ring around the cake base. Pour in the crème and smooth it down. Chill for about 2 hours.

  5. 5

    Whip 250 g cream and espresso powder until stiff, adding 1 vanillin sugar, 1 teaspoon sugar and cream setting agent. Fold in rum. Spread on the chocolate cream.

  6. 6

    Whip 250 g cream until stiff, pouring in 1 teaspoon of sugar. Pour 4 tbsp. cream into a piping bag (small star-shaped spout), spread the rest on the espresso cream. Decorate the cake with cream tuffs. Chill for about 2 hours.

  7. 7

    Decorate with cocoa and truffles just before serving.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
310 kcal
CARBS
19 g
FATS
23 g
PROTEINS
3 g

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