Recipe: Chocolate and coffee cake

Name: Gâteau chocolat et café
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 6 portions
Ingredients: 100 g de sucre100 g de chocolat noir (70°)75 g d'amandes en poudre *75 g de beurre75 g de maïzena4 oeufs moyens2 c à c de café soluble1 sachet de sucre vanillé*1/2 sachet de levure alsacienne

By AFTouch-Cuisine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 (2 reviews) Desserts

Prep 30 min

Cook 50 min

Total 1h20

Servings 6 serv.

Ingredients for 6 servings

100 g of sugar
100 g of dark chocolate (70°)
75 g of ground almonds *
75 g of butter
75 g of cornstarch
4 medium eggs
2 tsp of instant coffee
1 packet of vanilla sugar*
1/2 packet of Alsatian baking powder

Step-by-step directions

1- gently melt the chocolate in a little water then incorporate the coffee. set aside.

2- in a bowl, mix the softened butter with the vanilla sugar, add one whole egg then the 3 yolks with the powdered sugar. work and
add the warmed chocolate, the cornstarch, the baking powder and the ground almonds.

3- beat the 3 egg whites until stiff peaks not too firm and incorporate them into the previous mixture.

4- bake in a slow oven (150°) for approximately 40 minutes.

5- dust with powdered sugar once cooled
ps: I don't throw away my vanilla pods, I mix them with powdered sugar, so I always have vanilla sugar on hand.
I buy whole almonds which I put in a blender to reduce them to powder.

Chef Patrick's Comment

Excellent recipe, you can also serve individual portions on lovely black plates with a vanilla English cream and a few pearls of ginger or peppermint spaced out for an explosive combination!!! Chef Patrick always listening to the flowers.

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