Orange date cake

Name: Orange date cake
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 1 bar (100 g) of milk or dark chocolate; 100 g Rusk; 200 g Almonds with brown skin; 200 g fresh dates; 1 TEASPOON Flour; 100 g soft butter or margarine; 100 g Sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 1 package Orange fruit with cane sugar; 6 Eggs (size M); 1 go. Tsp baking powder; 7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1/2 orange; 2 TABLESPOONS Rum; 75 g Marzipan raw mass; 30 g Icing sugar; 30 g Flaked hazelnuts or almonds; 250-300 g Dark chocolate coating; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

AUTHOR
Eunice Scott

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
120 mins

TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 1

1 bar (100 g) of milk or dark chocolate
100 g Rusk
200 g Almonds with brown skin
200 g fresh dates
1 TEASPOON Flour
100 g soft butter or margarine
100 g Sugar
1 pinch Salt
1 package Orange fruit with cane sugar
6 Eggs (size M)
1 go. Tsp baking powder
7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1/2 orange
2 TABLESPOONS Rum
75 g Marzipan raw mass
30 g Icing sugar
30 g Flaked hazelnuts or almonds
250-300 g Dark chocolate coating
7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

Directions

1
Grate chocolate and rusks separately. Grind the almonds. Stone dates, cut them into small cubes and mix them with a teaspoon of flour. Cream fat, sugar, salt and orange peel.
2
Separate the eggs and stir the egg yolks into the fat mass one after the other. Mix almonds, rusk and baking powder and stir briefly into the dough. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold into the dough in 3 portions, together with the chocolate and dates.
3
Put the dough into a greased springform pan (26 cm Ø) sprinkled with breadcrumbs and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven (electric: 175 °C / gas: level 2) for 45-50 minutes. Cover at the end if necessary.
4
Let the cake cool down on a cake rack. Mix orange juice and rum. Prick the cake several times with a wooden skewer and sprinkle with the mixture. Remove the cake from the tin and let it dry a little.
5
Knead marzipan and icing sugar and roll out on a work surface dusted with icing sugar. Cut out stars and fir trees of different sizes as desired. Roast almonds or hazelnut flakes in a pan without fat and let them cool down.
6
Coarsely chop the chocolate coating and melt it on a hot water bath. Cover the cake with the chocolate coating. Press leaves to the edge and decorate the cake with marzipan stars and trees. Let it dry.
7
Results in about 16 pieces.