Elisen egg liqueur cake

AUTHOR
Xavier Baldwin
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
105 mins
TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 100 g Dark chocolate
  • 125 g ground hazelnuts
  • 125 g ground almonds (without skin)
  • 1 (15 g) go. tablespoon + 35 g starch
  • 200 g demerara sugar
  • 1 TEASPOON cinnamon, 1 Msp. ground cloves
  • 1 pinch salt, 3 eggs (Gr. M)
  • 1 glass (720 ml) Cherries
  • 6 Tl Bourbon vanilla sugar
  • 8 sheets white gelatine
  • 250 g Double cream, 300 ml Eierlikör
  • 250 g + 150 g whipped cream
  • 1 (30 g) Tube decoration writing "Choco" , chocolate rolls and icing sugar for decoration, baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Roughly chop the chocolate. Nuts, almonds, one go. Mix starch, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, salt and eggs with a hand mixer until smooth. Knead chocolate into the mixture. Cover and chill overnight

  2. 2

    Line the bottom of a springform pan (26 cm Ø) with baking paper. Spread the dough with your hands, press it down with the palms of your hands (it sticks a little bit!). Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/circulating air: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for about 30 minutes. Let them cool down

  3. 3

    Close the cake ring around the cake base. Drain the cherries and collect the juice. Mix 35 g starch, 2 tsp vanilla sugar and 6 tbsp juice. Boil up the rest of the juice. Stir in the starch and simmer for about 2 minutes. Fold in the cherries, up to about 8. Cool down a little. Spread on the bottom. Cool down completely

  4. 4

    Soak the gelatine in cold water. Mix the double cream and 200 ml liqueur. Heat 5 tablespoons (50 ml) of liqueur. Squeeze gelatine and dissolve in it. Stir in 6 tbsp. liqueur cream, then stir into the rest of the cream. Chill for about 5 minutes until it starts to gel. Whip 250 g cream and 2 tsp vanilla sugar until stiff. Fold into the cream, spread on the compote. Chill for about 4 hours.

  5. 5

    Place the Decor Writing Tube in hot water (see package instructions) for approx. 5 minutes. Paint stars with decorative lettering on a piece of baking paper and allow to dry

  6. 6

    Whip 150 g cream and 2 tsp. vanilla sugar until stiff. decorate the cake with cream tuffs, the rest liqueur, cherries, chocolate stars, chocolate rolls and icing sugar

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
470 kcal
CARBS
37 g
FATS
28 g
PROTEINS
7 g