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Macadamia Chocolate Cake with Salted Caramel (Susanne Förster-Gier)

Total Time17 hours
Servings: 10 people

Ingredients

Chocolate biscuit:

  • 200 g Sugar
  • 125 g Flour
  • 100 g Food starch
  • 80 g Cocoa
  • 5 Eggs
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 pinch Cloves
  • 1 pinch Cinnamon powder
  • 0,5 packet Baking powder

Orange buttercream:

  • 500 g Butter
  • 160 g Powdered sugar
  • 250 g Cream
  • 2 Organic oranges

Chocolateglaze:

  • 150 g Dark chocolate
  • 150 g Butter
  • 60 g Powdered sugar
  • 50 g Cocoa
  • 50 ml Coffee

Macadamia Salt Caramel:

  • 100 g Sugar
  • 50 ml Water
  • 100 g Macadamia nuts fresh
  • 1 tsp Fleur de sel

Instructions

Biscuit:

  • Prepare a sponge cake from the ingredients and bake in a 26-piece springform pan.

Orange buttercream:

  • Beat the butter and powdered sugar to a white cream.
  • Slowly stir in the liquid cream.
  • Season to taste with the zest of the organic oranges.

Annotation:

  • It should always taste a little stronger, otherwise the flavors in the finished cake will not come into their own.

Chocolateglaze:

  • Mix the butter and powdered sugar until creamy.
  • Stir in the melted chocolate.
  • Mix the cocoa with the coffee until smooth and stir into the chocolate cream.

Important:

  • Cool for approx. 30 minutes before use.

Macadamia Salt Caramel:

  • Bring the water and sugar to a boil in a pan without stirring.
  • Boil over the brown caramel, then add the nuts.
  • Pour everything onto baking paper and sprinkle with fleuer de sel.
  • Let cool down and then roughly chop.

Structure of the cake:

  • Cut the cooled sponge cake three times and dust with rum.
  • Then fill with the orange buttercream.
  • Wrap the cake with the chocolate icing all around with the palette.
  • Pour the rest of the icing into the piping bag and sprinkle a frilled edge on top and bottom of the cake.

Important:

  • Let it steep in the refrigerator for at least 24 hours. Take out of the refrigerator an hour before consumption so that all flavors can develop properly.

Nutrition

Serving: 100g | Calories: 490kcal | Carbohydrates: 38.2g | Protein: 1.8g | Fat: 37.1g