French chocolate body recipe
Equipment
- 1 oven
Ingredients
For the cake
- 100 g flour
- 120 gr sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 5 eggs
For the filling
- 1 cup milk
- 150 gr butter
- 100 g caster
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 tablespoons rum
Instructions
For the cake
- Beat the sugar with the eggs for 10 minutes.
- Add sieved flour, baking powder and cocoa.
- In a pan poured a wax paper and sprinkle the mixture.
- Bake in preheated oven at 200 Celsius for 12-14 minutes.
- Flip the cake on a wax paper sprinkled with powdered sugar, remove the previous wax paper and cover with a clean towel.
For the filling melt the dark chocolate in double boiler and add egg yolks and milk.
- Cook on low heat and then mix until the mixture become a viscous cream.
- We leave aside to cool and in the meantime hit the butter with sugar until fluffy.
- Mix the cream was the chocolate and add the rum.
- Spread 1 / 3 of the cream cake and wrap in a roll from the long side.
- The rest of cream covering the role from the outside with a fork to make lines that are reminiscent of tree trunk. Sprinkle with a little icing sugar.