Striped chocolate-almond wreath

AUTHOR
Kelli Murphy
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 2
COOK TIME
120 mins
TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 20
  • 60 g Baking chocolate
  • 280 g Butter or margarine
  • 350 g Sugar
  • 2 packages Vanillin sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 6 eggs ( size M )
  • 375 g Flour
  • 1 package Baking Powder
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Milk
  • 1 TABLESPOON Orange flavor
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Rum
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Cocoa powder
  • 1 TEASPOON Instant coffee powder
  • 1 knife tip Cinnamon
  • 7-10 Tbsp pulp of 1 vanilla pod
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1/2 untreated lemon
  • 100 g chopped almonds
  • 300 g white chocolate
  • 100 g Milk chocolate
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and breadcrumbs

Directions

  1. 1

    Coarsely chop the chocolate blocks. Cream 250 g fat, 250 g sugar, vanillin sugar and 1 pinch of salt with the whisks of the hand mixer. Stir in 4 eggs one after the other. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Mix 300 g flour and baking powder and stir in. Halve the dough.

  2. 2

    Stir milk and orange flavour into one half, rum and cocoa into the other half. Stir 30 g fat, 100 g sugar and 1 pinch of salt until creamy. Stir in 2 eggs one after the other. Stir in instant coffee, cinnamon, vanilla pulp and lemon zest. Mix 75 g flour and almonds. Stir in the flour mixture and the baking chocolate. Grease a ring cake tin (2.5 litres capacity) and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Layer light-coloured dough, almond dough and chocolate dough one after the other. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 1 hour. Take out and let cool down. Break white and milk chocolate into pieces. First melt white chocolate, then milk chocolate over a warm water bath.

  3. 3

    Layer light-coloured dough, almond dough and chocolate dough one after the other. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 1 hour. Take out and let cool down. Break white and milk chocolate into pieces. First melt white chocolate, then milk chocolate over a warm water bath. First cover the cake completely with white chocolate and let it lightly rise. Drizzle milk chocolate in strips over the cake. Let the chocolate dry

  4. 4

    waiting time approx. 3 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
430 kcal
CARBS
45 g
FATS
24 g
PROTEINS
7 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & PastriesWinterCake