Eggnog chocolate cake with rabbit deco

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 5 Eggs (Gr. M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 175 g Sugar
  • 3 packages Vanillin sugar
  • 175 g Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp 1 P. Baking powder
  • 150 g redcurrant jelly
  • 3 TSP Icing sugar
  • 6 sheets white gelatine
  • 600 g + 150 g + 150 g whipped cream
  • 200 ml Egg liqueur
  • 200 g Dark chocolate
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cocoa
  • baking paper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film
  • 1 disposable piping bag or 1 small freezer bag

Directions

  1. 1

    Line a springform pan (26 cm Ø; approx. 8 cm high) at the bottom with baking paper. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites and 1 pinch of salt until stiff, adding sugar and 1 packet of vanilla sugar. Beat the egg yolks separately.

  2. 2

    Mix flour and baking powder, sieve onto the egg foam and fold in. Spread the dough into the form and bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 25 minutes.

  3. 3

    Let it cool down in the mould.

  4. 4

    Cut off the top of the cake base approximately 1⁄3 Close the cake ring around the lower cake base. Stir the jelly until smooth. Spread the bottom cake layer, leaving about 1 cm of edge free. Cut out several rabbits (approx. 4.5 and 6 cm long) from the upper cake base and wrap in foil.

  5. 5

    Dust the upper base with approx. 2 tsp. icing sugar.

  6. 6

    Soak gelatine in cold water. Whip 600 g cream until stiff, pouring in 2 sachets of vanilla sugar. Squeeze the gelatine, dissolve over low heat. Stir in liqueur by the spoonful. First stir in 2 tablespoons of stiff cream, then fold everything into the remaining stiff cream.

  7. 7

    Spread on the lower floor. Apply the upper floor. Chill for about 2 hours.

  8. 8

    Break chocolate into pieces for the chocolate icing. Melt with 150 g cream in a small pot at low heat. If necessary, cool down briefly until the icing becomes somewhat thick. Pour into a disposable piping bag, cut off a small corner at the bottom.

  9. 9

    Squirt into the rabbit wells on the cake. Chill for about 3 hours.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
440 kcal
CARBS
39 g
FATS
25 g
PROTEINS
7 g