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Lightning Chocolate Cake / Blitz-Schokokuchen

February 4, 2024 - 1:41pm
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albacore

Lightning Chocolate Cake / Blitz-Schokokuchen

I recently baked (and enjoyed!) Benny's Chocolate Olive Oil cake. It reminded me that a while ago I made a very tasty German chocolate cake and I thought I would make it again. Unfortunately I had lost the link to the recipe, but after a lot of searching, I found it again - only to find that the link had broken! Fortunately The Wayback machine came to the rescue.

The recipe is in a sense totally the opposite of Benny's cake, using chocolate, not cocoa and butter, not olive oil. It is very rich, but very tasty.

Here is a link to my pdf recipe, translated from the German. I have retained the flowery introduction at the start of the recipe as I find it entertaining!

https://mega.nz/file/XIcz0AZK#mLtXRBsZywVAKYmT1W3KFDi9voBZE55NlaeXsDkrt48

One bonus is that the recipe is very easy to make - no need to separate the eggs. I scaled the cake down to 20cm as I thought the original 26cm version could have been a bit dangerous for just the two of us!

 

Note the crack where my rubbish baking paer didn't release properly!

 

 

Lance

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gavinc
February 5, 2024 - 12:29am

Lance. Spectacular. I love chocolate cake. You did a great job of this one., i wish I was close enough to enjoy it with you.

My wife bought a "50 fabulous chocolate cakes" recipe book. She's been baking a cake per fortnight; but my favourites are a flourless one with:

  • 200 g good bitter chocolate
  • 1 tablespoon brandy or cognac
  • 1 tablespoon strong black coffee
  • 100 g butter
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 100 g ground almonds
  • 3 eggs, separated
  • icing sugar, to serve
  • and a Guiness cake with:
  • 175 g plain flour
  • a pinch of baking powder
  • 1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 110 g butter, softened
  • 250 g dark brown sugar
  • 2 eggs, well beaten
  • 200 ml Guinness
  • 55 g cocoa

I can't get enough of them. I'm not sure I survive all 50 in the book.

Cheers, 

Gavin

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albacore
February 5, 2024 - 1:23am

Thanks Gavin; I like the look of your first recipe - similar to the one I used, but with the added bonus of coffee and brandy!

Lance

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Isand66
February 5, 2024 - 6:18pm

I would need to lose 100 lbs instead of the 30 I already need to drop 🙄😆

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Isand66
February 5, 2024 - 6:22pm

Thanks for sharing.  I love anything chocolate so this is right up my alley.  A nice scoop of vanilla ice cream would put this over the top! 😁

Best regards,

Ian

 

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albacore
February 6, 2024 - 1:54pm

Thanks Ian, you know you want a slice.....

Lance

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Benito
February 13, 2024 - 1:42pm

That looks delicious and just in time for Valentine’s Day.  Love the decorative sugar stripes on it as well Lance.

Benny

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albacore
February 13, 2024 - 2:31pm

Thank you Benny. It  was an interesting comparison to your cocoa and olive oil based recipe - both recipes are great, but I would say the chocolate and butter makes a richer cake. Probably not as healthy though!

Lance