Creamy Concoction

Ingredients

400g dark chocolate
150g unsalted butter
100g caster sugar
175 g almond powder
8 eggs
A pinch of salt
30 cl crème fraîche
parchment

Break the chocolate into pieces, melt in a bain marie and let cool 10 minutes. Separate the whites and yolks of eggs. Mix butter with sugar until fluffy, add egg yolks. Beat egg whites until stiff with salt. The gently fold into chocolate mixture.
Grease the parchment paper on a square pan. Pour into pan. Bake at 180 deg C for 40 minutes, lightly covered with foil end, if necessary to prevent burning.
Cool in pan one quarter of an hour then put on rack to finish cooling it.

For a heart for 8 people

4 eggs
170g sugar
140g flour
15g starch
15g cocoa powder
50g raisins
3 / 4 of a glass of rum
400g cream
150g icing sugar
1 packet of vanilla sugar
140 gr + 60 gr of dark chocolate

syrup:
200g water
100g sugar

Preparation: 1 hour
Cooking time: 45 minutes


Wash the raisins, and bring to boil water and sugar.
In the prepared syrup and add the rum and raisins.

Grease a heart shape.

Mount sponge bath:

working with the 4 whole eggs 170 g sugar. Beat for 10 minutes. Continue to fry for another 10 minutes off the heat. Then gently stir in the following mixture: flour, cornstarch, cocoa, raising the dough.

Fill the mold 3 / 4. Bake in slow oven (190 °, th 4 / 5) 45 minutes.

Melt 140g chocolate in a bain-marie, you keep warm, not hot

Beat the cream, fold in the icing sugar and vanilla sugar.

Cut the cake from the oven into 3 equal parts in the direction of thickness.

Drain raisins and sprinkle the 3 discs of sponge cake with a brush soaked in rum syrup.

Add melted chocolate to a large dollop of whipped cream.
Whisk briskly. Add another 150 g of whipped cream and mix to obtain a thick cream.

Sprinkle the first layer of cake with the whipped cream to chocolate.
Sprinkle half the raisins inflated.

Cover with the second layer of sponge cake, whipped cream, garnish with chocolate (about 200g), add the remaining grapes.

Place the third layer of cake and drizzle over the cake top and sides with remaining whipped cream to chocolate. Decorate with chocolate shavings.

Ingredients for a cake of 6 people

Preparation: fast

Cooking time: 5 minutes in microwave oven

50g flour
100g sugar
180g of dark chocolate pastry
80g butter
3 eggs
2 tablespoons water

In a bowl, combine butter and chocolate into small pieces, add 3 tablespoons of water. Place in microwave oven on high power 800 W for 1 minute.

Add the eggs one by one, then the sugar and flour.

Mix well to avoid lumps. You get a creamy paste.

Pour into a buttered dish or round cake baking in microwave.

Cook 5 minutes 30-800 W.

Remove the cake and let cool a few minutes. It is a cake perfect for last minute snacks. It is light and fluffy.

Ingredients for a cake for 8 people

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 25 minutes

6 fresh eggs
225g caster sugar
225g flour
225g butter
1 packet yeast
4 tablespoons cocoa powder



Beat eggs and sugar in a bowl until the mixture is creamy.
Melt the butter gently in the microwave. Attention should not be cooked. Pour melted butter into the mixture.
Add the flour and cocoa.
Mix gently.

Butter the sides of the mold.
Put the dough into the pan and put it in the oven at 200 ° C for 25 minutes.
Check the cooking spice cake to the tip of a knife.
It is cooked when the blade comes out clean.
Cool the cake before dusting of cocoa as a garnish.