Marzipan covered Chocolate Cake


Ingredients

6

eggs

225

g

butter

300

g

chocolate (dark or whole milk chocolate)

225

g

sugar

1

packets

vanilla sugar

3

tbsp

flour

150

g

ground almonds oder hazelnuts

200

g

marzipan

some

red

food colouring

some

pink

Marzipan roses with green marzipan leaves

some

flour (for the worktop)

3

tbsp

icing sugar

½

tsp

lemon juice

 

Marzipan covered Chocolate Cake

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 200° C.
  2. Seperate eggs and beat eggwhites until stiff. Add vanilla sugar and beat again.
  3. Melt butter and chocolate in a pot (low heat).
  4. Beat egg yolks and sugar until fluffy.
  5. Add chocolatebutter, flour and almonds/hazelnuts.
  6. Fold in egg whites.
  7. Grease baking pan (ø 26 cm).
  8. Bake cake for 20 min. Cake has a melted core!
  9. Dye 200 g marzipan with red food colouring an knead it.
  10. Put some flour on the worktop and roll out marzipan.
  11. Cut out a circle and lay the marzipan over the cake
  12. Mix icing sugar and lemon juice. Then fix marzipan roses and leaves on the cake.
  13. Instaed of using marzipan you can ice the cake with Baileys oder Advocaat icing
    (mix icing powder with Baileys or Advocaat). Or just sprinkle cake with icing powder.

Enjoy it!