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Italian cooking
Serves 4, Preparation 25 mins, Cooking 30 mins
Prepare a coffee in order to get the coffee grounds, i.e. the compact wet powder that remains in the filter of the Caffettiera – Italian coffee maker – after brewing. Or just use a small cup of ristretto coffee.
If you don’t have almond flour, just toast the almonds in the oven at 150° C / F 300 / Gas 2 for about 5-6 minutes, no longer. When they have cooled completely, reduce them to flour with a mixer. Same for peanuts. Do not turn off the oven and re-set the oven temp to 180 C / Gas 4 / F 350.
Break up the chocolate, melt the butter in a saucepan, add the broken up chocolate and melt itwhile stirring. Set aside and allow to cool.
Once the chocolate has cooled, add it to the egg yolk mixture with half of the sugar, stirring well.
Also add the almond and peanut flour, coffee grounds and rum, stir.
Whip the egg whites firm adding the other half of the sugar just when the egg whites are already half-whipped. Add them gently to the chocolate mixture mixing from the bottom up.
Cover with foil a 20-22 cm rectangular cake tin, pour the mixture into it.
Bake in static oven for about 20-25 minutes max.
The surface should be dry and wrinkled, while the inside should still be moist and almost creamy: if you insert a toothpick in the middle of the cake, it should come out moist and not dry. So the opposite of what happens with other standard cakes.
Take it out of the oven, let it cool first, then remove it from the cake tin with its foil, serve it by cutting it into cubes. No need to sprinkle it with icing sugar.
Serves 4, Preparation 25 mins, Cooking 30 mins
- 250 g of dark chocolate 70%
- 150 g of sugar
- 4 eggs
- 50 g peeled almonds to be ground or almond flour
- 50 g unsalted peanuts to be ground
- 120 g softened unsalted butter
- 30 g Coffee grounds or 1 small cup of ristretto coffee
- A small glass of rum
Prepare a coffee in order to get the coffee grounds, i.e. the compact wet powder that remains in the filter of the Caffettiera – Italian coffee maker – after brewing. Or just use a small cup of ristretto coffee.
If you don’t have almond flour, just toast the almonds in the oven at 150° C / F 300 / Gas 2 for about 5-6 minutes, no longer. When they have cooled completely, reduce them to flour with a mixer. Same for peanuts. Do not turn off the oven and re-set the oven temp to 180 C / Gas 4 / F 350.
Break up the chocolate, melt the butter in a saucepan, add the broken up chocolate and melt itwhile stirring. Set aside and allow to cool.
Once the chocolate has cooled, add it to the egg yolk mixture with half of the sugar, stirring well.
Also add the almond and peanut flour, coffee grounds and rum, stir.
Whip the egg whites firm adding the other half of the sugar just when the egg whites are already half-whipped. Add them gently to the chocolate mixture mixing from the bottom up.
Cover with foil a 20-22 cm rectangular cake tin, pour the mixture into it.
Bake in static oven for about 20-25 minutes max.
The surface should be dry and wrinkled, while the inside should still be moist and almost creamy: if you insert a toothpick in the middle of the cake, it should come out moist and not dry. So the opposite of what happens with other standard cakes.
Take it out of the oven, let it cool first, then remove it from the cake tin with its foil, serve it by cutting it into cubes. No need to sprinkle it with icing sugar.
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