Chocolate amaretto cake for Valentine's Day

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By Ángela

The bitter touch of the amaretto perfumes this chocolate cake both in its sponge base and in the topping. The recipe itself doesn't have much of a secret. We will prepare, on the one hand, a chocolate cake, and on the other, a cream or chocolate frosting. And the decoration? Well You can use heart-shaped molds to bake the cake or simply cut it guiding us with a template. On the cover of the cake, you can put sprinkles of little hearts.

Chocolate amaretto cake

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This recipe for Chocolate and amaretto cake is perfect to surprise the sweet tooth of the family

Chocolate amaretto cake
  • Ángela
  • Kitchen: traditional
  • Recipe type: dessert
  • Total time:

Ingredients

For the mass:

  • 100 gr. pastry flour
  • 25 gr. ground almond
  • 125 ml. milk
  • 115 gr. unsalted butter
  • 225 gr. 70% chocolate
  • 100 gr. sugar
  • 2 tablespoons amaretto
  • a few drops of vanilla aroma
  • a pinch of salt

To decorate / fill:

  • 125 ml. whipping cream
  • 250 gr. chocolate for desserts
  • 3 tablespoons amaretto liqueur

Preparation

  1. We start with the cake batter. In a saucepan, heat the milk and butter until it melts. Add the chopped or grated chocolate and stir until completely melted.

  2. Separate the yolks from the whites. Whip the egg whites until stiff with half the sugar and reserve. The yolks, we beat them with the rest of the sugar until we get a pale cream. Add the vanilla, amaretto and milk chocolate cream to the egg yolks. We mix.

  3. In a bowl, mix the flour, salt and ground almonds. On the chocolate preparation, add the flour mixture and integrate it well. Finally, add the egg whites three times, gently incorporating after each addition.

  4. We distribute the mixture in two greased molds or covered with baking paper and cook in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Remove the biscuits from the oven and let them rest for about 10 minutes before unmolding. Later, we let them cool on a rack.

  5. Meanwhile, we can prepare the filling cream and topping of the cake. Heat the cream and melt the chopped or grated chocolate in it until it melts. We let it cool down a bit and add the amaretto. When the cream is cold, we mount with the rods so that it is fluffy and firm.

  6. We assemble the cake. Spread a little filling on one of the sponge bases and cover with the other. With the rest of the frosting, we decorate the cake using a pastry bag and simulating the shape of a heart.

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  1.   Elen Plus said
    ago 10 years

    Hello! I wanted to make this cake so delicious now, how many eggs do you put in it? Thanks!!

    Reply to Elen Plus
    1.    Angela Villarejo said
      ago 10 years

      Hi there! It does not have an egg :)

      Reply to Ángela Villarejo
      1.    oskitar said
        ago 10 years

        As it will not carry an egg, if it puts:
        We separate the yolks from the whites. We mount the whites to
        point of snow with half of the sugar and we reserve. The yolks, the
        we beat with the rest of the sugar until we get a pale cream

        Reply to oskitar