Susan's Chocolate Dream
- 150 g butter
- 4 egg yolks
- 150 g sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 120 g dark chocolate, 50% cocoa, preferrably Swiss
- 50 g ground almonds (skin on)
- 30 g flour
- 4 egg whites
- raspberry preserves or cherry preserves
- icing sugar (otpional)
- paper baking cup, for muffins
- Using an electric mixer, mix the first four ingredients (until the salt) until bright and creamy.
- Put the chocolate in chunks into a small bowl.
- Pour hot water over it.
- Leave it for a few minutes.
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- When chocolate has melted, discard water except 2 tablespoons.
- Mix and add to the yolk mixture.
- Add ground almonds.
- Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold it into the chocolate mixture.
- Spread onto a lined oven rack.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes and let cool in the tin.
- Cut into halves, but leave both halves in the pan.
- Spread as much of the preserves onto one half as you like.
- Lift up both edges of the lining paper at that side where the biscuit is not covered with preserves.
- Lift the paper in such a way that you can cover the biscuit with the preserves with the one without the preserves.
- Sprinkle with icing sugar if desired.
- Cut into small squares and serve them in the paper baking cups.
- Watch them disappear!
butter, egg yolks, sugar, salt, dark chocolate, ground almonds, flour, egg whites, raspberry preserves, icing sugar, baking cup
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/susans-chocolate-dream-176175 (may not work)