Surprise cake (reader's recipe)

Name: Surprise cake (reader's recipe)
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 250 g Dark chocolate; 375 ml Milk; 3 Yolks (size M); 150 g soft butter; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 24 (200 g) Ladyfingers; 250 g Whipped cream; baking paper; 7-10 Tbsp Figure 02: Cocoa powder for dusting; 7-10 Tbsp Chocolate shavings

AUTHOR
Kerry Mosley

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
45 mins

TOTAL TIME
45 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8

250 g Dark chocolate
375 ml Milk
3 Yolks (size M)
150 g soft butter
1 package Vanillin sugar
24 (200 g) Ladyfingers
250 g Whipped cream
baking paper
7-10 Tbsp Figure 02: Cocoa powder for dusting
7-10 Tbsp Chocolate shavings

Directions

1
Chop the chocolate and melt over a warm water bath. Place 250 ml milk and egg yolks in a saucepan and heat while stirring until the first bubbles rise and remove from the heat. Whip butter until creamy with the whisk of the hand mixer, stir in liquid chocolate. Stir the egg yolk cream into the chocolate cream
2
Cover a springform pan (20 cm Ø) with baking paper. Mix 125 ml milk with vanillin sugar. Soak the lady fingers in the milk and line the bottom of the springform pan with half of the lady fingers. Spread half of the chocolate cream on it and cover with the remaining lady fingers. Spread with the rest of the cream. Put the cake in a cool place for about 1 hour
3
Whip the cream until stiff and put it into a piping bag with perforated spout. Turn the cake out of the cake ring onto a cake plate, remove baking paper and decorate generously with cream tuffs
4
Figure 02: Dust the edge with cocoa and decorate with chocolate shavings
5
Waiting time approx. 50 minutes