Chocolate knitting needle cake

AUTHOR
Lenora Decker
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
105 mins
TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 14
  • 150 g white couverture
  • 250 g soft butter or margarine
  • 200 g Sugar
  • 2 packages Vanillin sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 5 Eggs (size M)
  • 75 g Cornstarch
  • 250 g Flour
  • 1 package Baking Powder
  • 200 g Dark chocolate coating
  • 25 g Coconut oil (Palmin)
  • 250 g Whipped cream
  • 1 TEASPOON Icing sugar for dusting
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Wooden skewer for piercing

Directions

  1. 1

    Coarsely chop the white couverture and melt it on a hot water bath. Leave to cool a little. Cream fat, sugar, vanillin sugar and salt. Stir in the eggs individually, alternating with the cornflour. Then add the white chocolate coating while stirring.

  2. 2

    Mix flour and baking powder and stir in briefly. Pour the dough into a greased springform pan (26 cm Ø) sprinkled with flour and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven, 2nd shelf from below (electric oven: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 1 hour. Coarsely chop the dark chocolate coating and melt with the coconut oil on a hot water bath. Let the finished cake cool down. Using a wooden skewer or knitting needle, prick the surface of the cake several times until it reaches the bottom of the cake. Spread warm couverture, up to about 5 tablespoons, on the cake and let it cool down. Whip the cream until stiff. Remove the cake from the springform pan and lift it onto a cake plate. Spread the cream loosely on the cake.

  3. 3

    Spread warm couverture, up to about 5 tablespoons, on the cake and let it cool down. Whip the cream until stiff. Remove the cake from the springform pan and lift it onto a cake plate. Spread the cream loosely on the cake. Warm the rest of the chocolate coating again slightly and spread it as a blob on the cream. Pull through with a fork like a marble. Serve dusted with icing sugar

  4. 4

    On 16 pieces:

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
450 kcal
CARBS
41 g
FATS
29 g
PROTEINS
6 g

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