Chocolate Passion Fruit Cake

AUTHOR
Benton Mccarty
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4.7 3
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 125 g Icing sugar
  • 50 g Flour
  • 1/2 TEASPOON Baking Powder
  • 175 g ground almonds without skin
  • 200 g Protein (approx. 5 pieces; size M)
  • 50 g Sugar
  • 3 TABLESPOONS crushed hazelnuts
  • 150 g Dark chocolate
  • 400 g Whipped cream
  • 4 sheets Gelatine
  • 100 ml Passion fruit juice
  • 5 Passion Fruit
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Apple Jelly
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

  1. 1

    Mix icing sugar, flour, baking powder and almonds. Beat the egg whites until stiff, adding the sugar. Carefully fold in the almond and flour mixture. Halve the mixture, fill into 2 greased springform pans (each approx. 20 cm Ø) sprinkled with flour and smooth it down. Sprinkle with hazelnuts. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 15 minutes

  2. 2

    Remove the sponge cake from the oven, remove from the edge and allow to cool. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt in a bowl over a warm water bath. Remove and let it cool down. Whip 250 g cream until stiff, stir into the lukewarm chocolate in portions

  3. 3

    Soak 3 sheets of gelatine in cold water. Heat 50 ml juice. Dissolve expressed gelatine in it. Add the remaining juice, chill until the juice starts to gel. Beat 150 g cream until stiff and fold in

  4. 4

    Place a cake ring around one of the bases. Spread the chocolate cream on the base. 2. place a cake ring around one of the cake bases and spread the passion fruit cream on top. Chill the cake for at least 2 hours

  5. 5

    Soak 1 sheet of gelatine in cold water. Halve the passion fruit and remove the pulp. Simmer the pulp and jelly for about 1 minute, then remove from the heat and allow to cool for about 5 minutes. Dissolve squeezed out gelatine in it, then let it cool lukewarm. Pour the jelly onto the surface of the cake. Chill the cake for at least 3 hours. Remove from the cake ring and serve

  6. 6

    waiting time approx. 5 1/2 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
380 kcal
CARBS
30 g
FATS
25 g
PROTEINS
8 g

Categories & Tags

Dessertvery easyCakeChristmas