Torta al cioccolato – Schokoladentorte

ingredients

• 125g dark chocolate couverture
• 125g whole milk couverture
• 150g soft butter
• 1 tsp instant coffee powder or espresso powder
• 90ml of water
• 160g flour 550s
• 40 g of cocoa
• 1 teaspoon tartar baking powder
• 100g sugar or birch sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla paste ( homemade or bought – alternatively: 2 pck vanilla sugar with bourbon vanilla
• 2 tbsp oil, (eg sunflower oil)
• 60g buttermilk
• 80g crème double
• 60g cream
• 3 tablespoons of vanilla sugar
• 300g frozen raspberries
• 40g freeze-dried raspberries
• 10 mint leaves
• 100g fresh raspberries
• 150-200g of crème double (you can find them in the cold store of your supermarket with crème fraîche or sour cream: it is mostly from Dr. Oetker – it is a sour cream with a very high fat content and tastes heavenly)

preparation

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees
• Grease and flourish the bottom and sides of a springform pan (24 cm in diameter) or lay out with parchment paper.
• Carefully melt couvertures and butter (50 degrees). When the chocolate and butter have melted, allow the mixture to cool to room temperature.
• Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder in a bowl
• Add sugar, salt and vanilla paste and stir.
• In another bowl, beat the eggs with oil and buttermilk. The flour mixture undergo
• Add the chocolate mixture in three stages and stir until a smooth dough has formed
• Put the dough in the springform pan and bake for about 45 minutes.
• Allow the cake to cool, take it out of the springform pan and transfer to a cake plate
• Dust with sweet snow
• Crumble the GT raspberries, add to the cake and decorate with fresh raspberries

Raspberry ice cream:

• Mix raspberries with cream double, cream, sugar and 10 mint leaves in a blender.
• Arrange the cake with raspberry ice cream, cream double and the freeze-dried raspberries

Dodo’s verdict:

You can flavor this cake depending on the season: in the summer with the dried raspberries, in winter, orange zest, which you give in the dough. Instead of raspberry ice cream, a nice kumquat compote.