Chocolate cake 02

18711 CHOCOLATE CAKE INGREDIENTS for 4 PERSONS 180 g flour, 200 g butter, 200 g sugar, 6 eggs, 50 g chopped hazelnuts, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder.

For coverage: 100 g of dark chocolate, 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder.

For the filling: 200 g of fresh chestnuts boiled and skinned already, 1 glass of cream, 2 tablespoons rum, 2 tablespoons of sugar.

Mix in a bowl the butter, egg yolks and sugar, beat well with the whisk.

Add the hazelnuts, flour and cocoa.

Whip the egg whites until foamy, and blend the mixture gently.

Grease and flour a cake tin with a diameter of 24 cm and pour the prepared dough.

Place in the oven already warm at 180° and cook for 30 minutes.

Remove from oven, put and let cool.

Meanwhile passed the chestnuts to the Blender, add the sugar dissolved in a tablespoon of hot water, the cream in the refrigerator and assembled quickly, rum; Worked well to obtain a smooth and homogeneous cream.

Melt the chopped chocolate in a Bain-Marie, stirring with a wooden spoon until you have a smooth cream.

Divide the cake in half horizontally and fill with the cream of chestnuts.

The recompose and cover the surface with melted chocolate spread with a spatula.

Before it has cooled sprinkle with cocoa powder.