Zucchini chocolate box cake

Name: Zucchini chocolate box cake
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 18
Ingredients: 300 g Courgette; 200 g Butter or margarine; 175 g + 2 tablespoons sugar; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Salt; 4 Eggs (size M); 350 g Flour; 1 package Baking Powder; 50 g ground hazelnuts; 75 g Chocolate droplets; 100 g Whole milk couverture; 100 g semi-bitter couverture; 2 TABLESPOONS Hazelnut kernels; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour; baking paper

AUTHOR
Kelley Price

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
105 mins

TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 18

300 g Courgette
200 g Butter or margarine
175 g + 2 tablespoons sugar
1 package Vanillin sugar
7-10 Tbsp Salt
4 Eggs (size M)
350 g Flour
1 package Baking Powder
50 g ground hazelnuts
75 g Chocolate droplets
100 g Whole milk couverture
100 g semi-bitter couverture
2 TABLESPOONS Hazelnut kernels
7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
baking paper

Directions

1
Clean, wash, coarsely grate and squeeze the zucchini well. Cream the fat, 175 g sugar, vanillin sugar and 1 pinch of salt with the whisk of the hand mixer. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Mix flour, baking powder and ground hazelnuts and stir in. Fold in zucchini and chocolate drops briefly.
2
Grease a box form (30 cm long) and dust with flour. Fill in the dough and smooth it down. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 60-70 minutes. Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool down for 5 minutes. Turn the cake out of the tin and let it cool down completely. Coarsely chop the chocolate coating and melt on a warm water bath. Cover the cake with it. Caramelise 2 tablespoons of sugar in a pan. Place hazelnut kernels on baking paper and sprinkle with caramel.
3
Turn the cake out of the tin and let it cool down completely. Coarsely chop the chocolate coating and melt on a warm water bath. Cover the cake with it. Caramelise 2 tablespoons of sugar in a pan. Place hazelnut kernels on baking paper and sprinkle with caramel. Coarsely chop the caramel nuts and decorate the cake with them
4
2 hours waiting time