Chocolate fruit cake

AUTHOR
Harley Romero
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 1
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 250 g + some soft butter
  • 350 g + some flour
  • 50 g Dark chocolate
  • 200 g candied ginger
  • 100 g Marzipan raw mass
  • 5 Eggs (Gr. M)
  • 175 g demerara sugar
  • 1/2 TEASPOON ground cloves
  • 1 TEASPOON ground cinnamon, salt
  • 5 TABLESPOONS Whipped cream
  • 40 g bitter orange marmalade
  • 7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1 medium orange
  • 100 g crushed almonds
  • 1 coated Tsp Baking Powder
  • 100 g flaked almonds
  • 100 g Dark chocolate coating
  • 25 g Plate grease (e.g. Palmin)
  • 7-10 Tbsp untreated orange peel and candy -slices
  • 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

Directions

  1. 1

    Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø; approx. 8 cm high) and dust with flour. Chop chocolate and ginger. Coarsely grate marzipan

  2. 2

    Separate eggs. Cream 250 g butter, sugar, spices and 1 pinch of salt. Stir in the egg yolks, cream and marzipan, then jam, juice, chocolate and 3/4 ginger. Beat the egg white until stiff. Mix ground almonds, 350 g flour and baking powder. Stir the beaten egg whites into the dough with a wooden spoon. Brush into the form. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: pc. 2) for 50-60 minutes. Cool down

  3. 3

    Roast the flaked almonds, cool them down. Roughly chop the chocolate coating. Melt in a hot water bath with plate-grease. Cover the cake with it. Decorate with the rest of ginger, almonds etc. Let it dry. Dust with icing sugar

  4. 4

    Tip: Lasts about 2 weeks

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
360 kcal
CARBS
33 g
FATS
22 g
PROTEINS
6 g