Chocolate cake with lemon marzipan cream
I made this cake for Krista’s birthday in August 2021. Chocolate cakes can be made in hundreds of different variants. This is a more serious, juicy, richly chocolate variant, which is given a slightly more sour tone by the lemon marzipan cream. By following this recipe, you can make a high, 6-layered cake with a diameter of 21 cm, but it can also be made with fewer layers.
Cooking time: About 3 hours from the start of baking until the cake is assembled
Level: average
Quantity: 16 slices, 19 cm cake tin
Ingredients:
Cake bases:
190 g of wheat flour
3 medium eggs
250 g of granulated sugar
2.5 teaspoons baking powder
80 g of dark cocoa powder
220 g 82% farm butter
200 g of dark chocolate with 70% cocoa content
200 g of cream cheese
vanilla
Chocolate cream
150 g butter
100 g of sugar
60 g almond flour
200 g of cream cheese
vanilla sugar
150 g of dark chocolate
Lemon marzipan cream
150 g of almond flour
150 g icing sugar
Juice of 1 lemon
water if the cream is too thick
Preparation:
1. Make cake bases. To do this, melt the butter and chocolate over low heat, add the remaining components. Using electric mixer mix until smooth.
2. Divide the dough into three 21 cm cake tins and bake at 150 degrees for about 35-40 minutes until the test tube is clean.
3. Cool the cake bases completely
4. To make the chocolate cream, melt the butter and chocolate on low heat, mix the rest of the cream components until a beautiful shiny cream. Allow cooling in the refrigerator for about an hour to make the cream less flowing
5. To make lemon marzipan, mix almond flour with icing sugar, add lemon juice and mix into the dough. If the dough is too thick, add water. The marzipan I used for the cake cream was rollable but quite soft and sticky.
6. When the cake bases have cooled, cut them crosswise into two layers.
7. Place one layer on a serving plate and spread generously a chocolate cream. Cover with the next layer, apply a layer of marzipan.
8. Use a regular rolling pin or glass bottle to roll the marzipan. Shake the icing sugar on the work surface and roll the marzipan piece into a cake the size of a layer about 0.5 cm thick. Place it on the base of the cake.
9. Do the same with all layers of cake. Cover them in turn with chocolate cream and marzipan layer.
10. Cover the sides and surface of the cake with chocolate cream. Garnish the cake with fresh strawberries or other berries.
11. It would be best to eat it when this cake has been standing overnight or even for two days
Ready !!