Marzipan cake

AUTHOR
Billie Wagner
DIFFICULTY
RATING
4 2
COOK TIME
45 mins
TOTAL TIME
45 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8
  • 2 piece(s) Eggs
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 100 g Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa
  • 1 glass Sour cherries
  • 1 pack of red glaze
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 500 millilitre cream
  • 250 g Marzipan paste
  • 2 tablespoon icing sugar
  • 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa
  • 7-10 Tbsp Springform pan

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 200 C (circulating air). Separate eggs. Mix egg yolks with sugar and 2 tbsp. hot water until creamy. Beat egg whites until stiff. Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa, fold into the egg yolk mixture together with the beaten egg white.

  2. 2

    Put the dough into a springform pan and bake in a preheated oven for about 12 minutes. Let it cool down.

  3. 3

    For the filling, drain the sour cherries, measure 250 ml of juice. Cover the cake base with the cherries. Mix the cake glaze with sour cherry juice and sugar according to the package instructions, pour over the cherries.

  4. 4

    Whip the cream until stiff, set aside 3 tbsp. Spread the rest of the cream on the cherries.

  5. 5

    For the topping, mix marzipan paste with sieved icing sugar, roll out thinly for about 3 mm. Place marzipan as a cake cover over the cake, cut off any excess. Form 12 small balls from the leftovers.

  6. 6

    Sieve the cocoa onto the cover, spray 12 cream dabs and place the marzipan balls on top.