Coffee Truffles (Tartufo al Caffè)
Instructions
Mix the eggs and sugar in a bowl resistant to heat that you will support on a pot of hot water (avoid, however, that the Fund remains absorbed!).
Beat the eggs and sugar in a Bain-Marie until the ingredients are warm, then remove the Bowl from the heat and continue to stir until cool (approximately 10 minutes).
Stir very gently with a spatula sieved flour alternating with cocoa also passed through a sieve.
Add to the melted butter without removing the dough.
Pour the mixture into a mold to buttered and floured well Dome, and cook in the oven at 190 degrees for an hour and 20 minutes (check the doneness by inserting a toothpick in the center of the cake: if it comes out wet, continue cooking covering the pie with aluminum foil).
When the cake is ready, let it cool, then dessert, turn out and cut it into 5 layers of equal thickness.
Chop the chocolate and put it on fire with the cream and let it melt, stirring with a wooden spoon.
When the cream starts to bubble counted 3 minutes and then turn off the heat and let cool, stirring occasionally.
Aside from Mount the butter softened at room temperature with sugar, add little by little chocolate cream continuing to work the ingredients with whips, finally add the coffee.
Spread a thick layer of cream on each disc of dough except the last one, optionally overlap them and put the cake in the refrigerator.
Prepared the decorations: make a caramel with the sugar and a tablespoon of water.
As soon as it is ready pour it on the oven tray lined with paper towel and pull it the thinnest possible with one tablespoon working while it's hot.
Dissolve the Couverture chocolate in the oven at 100 degrees, pour it on a marble floor and pull it with a spatula.
When hardened raschiatelo with a spatula and a short series of thin chocolate cigars.
Place the cold dessert on a chopping board and, with a finely serrated knife, sfaccettatelo on a regular basis.
Transfer cake to serving dish and garnish everything around with pieces of caramel and chocolate cigars.
Ingredients and dosing for 8 persons
- For the genoise:
- 250 g of sugar
- 8 eggs
- 160 g of flour
- 80 g of bitter cocoa
- 50 g of butter
- For the cream:
- 200 g of cream
- 200 g of chocolate
- 50 g of sugar
- 150 g of butter
- 2 tablespoons of very restricted coffee
- For decoration:
- 200 g of couverture chocolate fudge
- 200 g of sugar