Chocolate walnut cake, American
DIFFICULTY
easy
easy
RATING
COOK TIME
75 mins
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins
75 mins
Ingredients
Servings:
1
- 2 bars (à 100 g) dark chocolate
- 300 g Flour
- 175 g demerara sugar
- 1 package Baking Powder
- 7-10 Tbsp Salt
- 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
- 100 g chopped walnuts
- 2 Eggs (size M)
- 300 g Applesauce from the glass
- 5 TABLESPOONS Oil
- 4-5 Tbsp Brandy
- 1 TEASPOON Coffee powder (instant)
- 200 g Icing sugar
- 70 g dark chocolate coating
- 20 Walnut halves
- 7-10 Tbsp Grease
Directions
- 1
Chopping chocolate. Mix flour with sugar, baking powder, salt, lemon peel, walnuts and chocolate. Whisk eggs and mix with applesauce and oil. Mix the apple mixture well with the flour mixture and fill into a wreath mould (springform pan with wreath insert; 26 cm Ø). Bake in the preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 45-50 minutes.
- 2
Leave to rest in the form for 10 minutes, then turn over. In the meantime mix brandy with coffee powder and icing sugar and spread on the lukewarm cake. Melt the couverture, dip the walnuts half in each, drain a little and place them on the cake. Results in about 20 pieces
- 3
E 4,45 g/ F 13,38 g/ KH 40,31 g