Easter Chocolate Cake, A Recipe From Patrick Roger
- 5 egg whites
- 1 3/4 cups caster sugar
- 10 egg young
- 3/4 cup flour
- 9/16 cup cocoa powder
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 9/16 cup hazelnuts
- 5 5/8 tablespoons water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 orange organic
- 2 tablespoons orange liqueur
- 1 cup cream
- 1 7/8 tablespoons honey
- 2 13/16 tablespoons butter
- 2/3 pound chocolate
- Prepare by boiling syrup all ingredients for 15 minutes. Let cool.
- Beat the egg whites until stiff, they begin to foam, add the powdered sugar .Ajoutez yellow continuing to beat the mixture.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan. Sift the flour and cocoa.
- Crush the nuts with a knife. Add hazelnuts white, then the flour and cocoa and warm melted butter in net. Mix gently with a spatula.
- Pour the mixture into a mold bake 30 minutes at 160 u0b0 C.
- Let the cake cool 10 minutes before turning out onto a rack. Let cool and cut into 3 disks of the same thickness .Imbibez cake (3 slices) with syrup using a brush.
- Boil the cream with honey. Melt the chocolate in the microwave. Add the cream, "both in the melted chocolate. Stir with a spatula for a ganache glaze. Add butter cut into pieces .Laissez the ganache to cool and become a little more compact before covering 2 slices of cake.
- Post a first installment on a rack, cover the ganache, place a second slice, cover with ganache and then drop the last cake thickness and cover completely with ganache. I use a small spatula to put the ganache on the sides of the cake .I put my grid on a plastic tray or parchment paper to recover the excess ganache frosting runny.
- Allow the cake to harden for 30 minutes and then store in the fridge for one night.
- For a matter of organization when my ganache cake was well cured, I packed a plastic film and I frozen four days .It is quite handy to know that the dessert is already done and that 'There is more to thaw for 4 hours.
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Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Easter-Chocolate-Cake_-a-Recipe-from-Patrick-Roger-781951 (may not work)