Schokoladenkuchen Recipes

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl or standing mixer, cream butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in melted chocolate.
• 2. In a separate bowl, combine flour and salt. Add buttermilk and chocolate mixture, alternating. Stir in vanilla.
• 3. In a small bowl, dissolve baking soda in vinegar. Slowly add this to the chocolate mixture. Mix just until blended. Do not over-mix!
• 4. Grease and flour 2 9-inch cake pans. Line bottom of pans with parchment paper. Pour batter into prepared pans and bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes, then remove from pans. Transfer to wire racks and cool completely before frosting.
• 5. FOR FROSTING: In a large mixing bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy. Slowly add sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well between additions. Stir in chocolate and vanilla. If necessary, thin frosting with 1 to 2 tsps. half-and-half.

Steps:

• Stir margarine until foam-like.
• Add sugar, yellow of the 6 eggs, salt and vanilla sugar, stir again.
• Dissolve chocolate in 3 tablespoons of water and add to the mixture.
• Add almonds and biscuits.
• Stir the white of the 6 eggs until stiff, add to the mixture and mix well.
• Grease 10 inch cake pan with margarine, pour mixture into pan.
• Bake on lowest position in oven at 180°C (356°F) for 50 to 60 minutes.
• Frosting:.
• Mix powder sugar with 4 tablespoons of water. Put 1 tablespoon aside.
• Add chocolate powder to the rest of the mixture, add a few drops of water and stir.
• Let cake cool off after baking. Pour chocolate mixture evenly over cake.
• Form a small, funnel-shaped paper with a tiny opening. Put the mixture set aside in 1. into paper and draw 8 concentric circles on cake.
• Use a small knife and pull 8 lines from the center towards the edge and 8 lines from the edge towards the center alternating.
• Hint: Store chocolate cake in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spray a 9-inch springform pan the nonstick spray. Refrigerate. Microwave the chocolate until melted and smooth, stirring every 20 seconds, for about 1 minute.
• Combine the almonds and cookies in processor. Pulse until the almonds and cookies are finely ground. Transfer the nut mixture to a medium bowl. Add the butter and sugar to the processor and blend until creamy and smooth. Add the grated orange peel and pulse briefly, until incorporated. Add the eggs 1 at a time. Blend until the eggs are incorporated. Clean the sides of the mixing bowl and blend again. Add the nut mixture and melted chocolate. Pulse until blended. Clean the sides of the bowl. Blend again.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the center puffs and a tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Cool the cake in the pan for 15 minutes.
• Transfer the cake to a platter. Sift the cocoa powder over and serve.