ingredients
3 tablespoons cacao powder
1 teaspoon nescafe
1 cup boiled water
100 gr butter cut into cubes
100 gr bitter dark chocolate
3 eggs yolks separated from whites
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons brandy or liquor
1 3/4 cup flour
10 gr baking powder
1 1/2 cup sugar
halva cream:
50 gr white chocolate
200 gr butter
3 tablespoons sugar powder
100 gr halva crushed into crumb
1 tablespoon hazelnuts liquor
Halva cream: Melt white chocolate in microwave or in hot waterbasin. Cool a little. Blend butter with sugar powder into a creamy mass. Gradually add to creamed butter melted chocolate and blend well. Add crashed halva, liquor and continue to mix until thoroughly blended. Leave aside.
Chocolate dough: In a saucepan put 1 cup of sugar, cacao powder, nescafe. Add boiling water and mix well. Add bitter chocolate cubes, butter and on a low flame melt butter and chocolate. Remove from the flame. In a separate bowl beat eggs yolks with vanilla extract and brandy. Pour yolks mixture into the chocolate-butter mixture and thoroughly blend. Divide the chocolate mixture: Take 3/4 from the mixture and put in a small bowl and leave aside (for making top level of the cake). To 1/4 of the chocolate mixture that leaved in the saucepan add flour and baking powder and mix well until well incorporated. In another separate bowl beat white eggs with 1/2 cup of sugar till light and fluffy. Add beated eggs to the chocolate dough and continue to mix until thoroughly blended. Pour the dough evenly into the baking pan. Bake for about 50 minutes at medium (170°C) pre heated oven. Remove from the oven and helping with long knife cut the cake on two equal parts. Spread halva cream on one part and cover with another part of cake. Take wooden stick and pierce the upper part of the cake in many places. Spread 3/4 chocolate cream ,which have been stored aside, on the cake (some cream will be absorbed through the holes). Cool and serve.
Chocolate dough: In a saucepan put 1 cup of sugar, cacao powder, nescafe. Add boiling water and mix well. Add bitter chocolate cubes, butter and on a low flame melt butter and chocolate. Remove from the flame. In a separate bowl beat eggs yolks with vanilla extract and brandy. Pour yolks mixture into the chocolate-butter mixture and thoroughly blend. Divide the chocolate mixture: Take 3/4 from the mixture and put in a small bowl and leave aside (for making top level of the cake). To 1/4 of the chocolate mixture that leaved in the saucepan add flour and baking powder and mix well until well incorporated. In another separate bowl beat white eggs with 1/2 cup of sugar till light and fluffy. Add beated eggs to the chocolate dough and continue to mix until thoroughly blended. Pour the dough evenly into the baking pan. Bake for about 50 minutes at medium (170°C) pre heated oven. Remove from the oven and helping with long knife cut the cake on two equal parts. Spread halva cream on one part and cover with another part of cake. Take wooden stick and pierce the upper part of the cake in many places. Spread 3/4 chocolate cream ,which have been stored aside, on the cake (some cream will be absorbed through the holes). Cool and serve.
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