Cold Chocolate Cake
Desserts from Italy - Lazio
Pumpkin pie and dark chocolate
Pumpkin pie and dark chocolate
ready in
1 hour 15 minutes
difficulty
daily requirement
100% Fat
100% Protein
100% Carbohydrates
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description
Greedy cake with pumpkin and dark chocolate
preparation
step 1
First you cook the pumpkin in the oven wrapped in silver paper. Once cooked, shake it with the blender and let cool. Whip with electric whisk the eggs with the sugar,
step 2
then add the vegetable oil and a pinch of salt and continue to work it all again with the whisk. Mix the flour with the baking powder and vanilla and pour over the mixture,
step 3
, Always working with the whisk to mix well. Place the pumpkin puree, liqueur (the recipe calls for rum I had not and I used a walnut liqueur), the chopped chocolate into pieces,
step 4
, Lemon zest and continue to whisk until mixture is smooth. Pour into a greased and floured cake tin and bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 40-45 minutes
step 5
If you check the cooking according to your oven and do the toothpick test). Meanwhile the cake is cooking, prepare the glaze by chopping the chocolate in a double boiler over low heat.
step 6
When the chocolate has melted, add the butter cut into small cubes and mix well until a smooth cream. Let cool and once the cake has cooled
step 7
paid to the distributing center of the cake icing with a spatula evenly. Complete with the almond kernels.