Chocolate punch cake

AUTHOR
Kelley Price
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 20
  • 1/8 l Red wine
  • 5 TABLESPOONS Orange juice
  • 2 packages Vanillin sugar
  • 1 (2 g) Bag of spice for mulled wine (Glühfix)
  • 100 g Dark chocolate
  • 200 g Butter or margarine
  • 200 g Sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 4 Eggs (size M)
  • 250 g Flour
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons (10 g) Cocoa powder
  • 1 package Baking Powder
  • 3 tablespoons (25 g) crushed almonds
  • 200 g Almond kernels without skin
  • 50 g red cherries
  • 50 g Pistachio kernels
  • 200 g Icing sugar
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS white rum
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
  • 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs

Directions

  1. 1

    Heat red wine, orange juice and 1 sachet of vanilla sugar. Remove from heat. Let the Glühfix bag steep for about 5 minutes. Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø) with a tube bottom insert and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Roughly chop the chocolate. Cream the fat, sugar, salt and 1 packet of vanilla sugar.

  2. 2

    Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour, cocoa, baking powder and ground almonds, alternating with the mulled wine and stir in briefly. Fold in chopped chocolate and 100 g almond kernels. Spread into the mould. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 1 hour. Let it cool down. Coarsely chop the cherries, pistachios and 100 g almonds. Mix icing sugar, rum and lemon juice until smooth. Cover the cake with half the icing. Sprinkle with cherries, almonds and pistachios. Spread the rest of the icing on top.

  3. 3

    Let it cool down. Coarsely chop the cherries, pistachios and 100 g almonds. Mix icing sugar, rum and lemon juice until smooth. Cover the cake with half the icing. Sprinkle with cherries, almonds and pistachios. Spread the rest of the icing on top. Let it dry. Dust the chocolate punch cake with icing sugar

  4. 4

    waiting time approx. 2 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
360 kcal
CARBS
36 g
FATS
19 g
PROTEINS
6 g