Fondant Chocolate Cake Without Flour
Desserts from Italy
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ready in
1 hour
difficulty
daily requirement
100% Fat
100% Protein
100% Carbohydrates
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description
My reproduction of the famous Knam cake
preparation
step 1
First of all, we prepare the marquise. Once you separate the eggs, put the yolks inside a bowl, add 100 g of icing sugar and mount them using a hand whisk or a whisk.
step 2
In the meantime, start whipping up the egg whites as soon as they are whitish and already sparkling, add the remaining 200 g of icing sugar, as well as the yolks will be well-fitted to the albumi.
step 3
At this point also incorporate the cocoa and the sliced starch, making sure not to disassemble the mixture, mixing from bottom to top.
step 4
At this point, place the plate with the paper and place the mixture well, level it in the oven at 200 ° for about 8-9 minutes on the central shelf. After finishing it, cuppate it with a 22 cm cake
step 5
For chocolate mousse, melt the chocolate in a bain-marie, in the meantime pour the cream in a bowl and using a whip that you start to assemble it, it should not be mounted to the firm snow.
step 6
At this point, make sure that the chocolate has a temperature between 55 ° and 50 °, pour about half the cream inside and mix well. Then pour the mixture into the remaining cream and mix
step 7
Then pour the compound into the ring (28) and use the level trowel to level the surface. At this point put the cake in the fridge for at least 2 hours, preferably all night.
step 8
Once the cake is firm, decorate the edges of the cake with the dark chocolate grain and sprinkle the surface with bitter cocoa.