"Amandine" Chocolate sponge cake
"Amandine" Chocolate sponge cake

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, "amandine" chocolate sponge cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chocolate Sponge Cake is known as 'Amandine' in Romania. This is a very popular Romanian cake filled with either chocolate or almond cream. If you ever visit Romania, look for the "cofetarie" signs.

"Amandine" Chocolate sponge cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. "Amandine" Chocolate sponge cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have "amandine" chocolate sponge cake using 23 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make "Amandine" Chocolate sponge cake:
  1. Prepare Cocoa sponge
  2. Prepare 8 eggs
  3. Get 5 tbsp superfine high fiber flour
  4. Make ready 3 tbsp cocoa
  5. Make ready 8 tbsp erythritol
  6. Take 3 tbsp water
  7. Take 1 dbsp baking powder
  8. Take Pinch salt
  9. Prepare Syrup
  10. Make ready 150 ml water
  11. Take 2 tbsp erythritol
  12. Make ready 1 tbps instant coffee
  13. Take 1 dbsp "Rom" essence
  14. Get Cream frosting
  15. Make ready 250 gr mascarpone cheese
  16. Take 100 gr butter, room temperature
  17. Make ready 300 ml double cream
  18. Take 50 gr erythritol
  19. Get 50 ml melted dar chocolate
  20. Get Vanilla essence
  21. Take Chocolate icing
  22. Take 150 gr dark chocolate
  23. Make ready 300 gr double cream

The cake has four components - the sponge cake, the syrup, the filling, and the glaze. Romanian Amandine Cakes. rum/caramel soaked chocolate nut sponge cakes. Throughout my years of blogging, I've had many requests to post an Amandina recipe. Always being reluctant to make desserts that are laden with too much sugar and butter, I've postponed it for quite some time.

Instructions to make "Amandine" Chocolate sponge cake:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Spray with coconut cooking oil and line a square baking pan with parchment paper.
  2. Separate the egg whites from yolks. Beat the yolks with the vanilla essence and the cold water until frothy.
  3. Put the egg whites in a mixer bowl and mix at first slow speed then at increasingly higher speed.

Add the erythritol slowly, one tablespoon at the time and mix well until the mixture becomes frothy and creamy. Add the yolks mixture and mix until the colour becomes pale yellow.

  1. In a separate bowl add the high fiber flour, powder cocoa, baking powder, salt, mix well to homogenize the ingredients.

Incorporate the solid ingredients mixture into the egg mixture by adding two tablespoons of the solid ingredient mix.

  1. Once the ingredients are incorporated.

Pour the mixture into the baking pan and level out with a spatula.

  1. Bake for 30 minutes or until then sponge passes the toothpick test.

Remove from oven, allow to cool for at least 30 minutes.

  1. The Syrup

Place all the ingredients in a sauce pan on low heat and bring to a boil.

Remove form heat and allow to cool.

  1. The Chocolate Cream

Mix the butter with the erythritol until fluffy, add the mascarpone and the melted chocolate and mix well. On a separate bowl beat the double cream until it's stiff and it doubles it's size. Add the wipped cream slowly to the mascarpone mixture and mix until incorporated. Leave it in the fridge until the chocolate sponge has cooled.

  1. The Icing - place the dark chocolate and double cream on a microwave safe bowl. And heat until the chocolate melts.
  2. Assembly the cake

Remove the sponge cake from the baking pan on a flat surface and with a sharp wide knife slice the sponge in two layers.

  1. Using a brush spread the half of the syrup evenly on top of the sponge.
  2. Fill the sponge with the chocolate cream prepared earlier, spreading it evenly on the sponge surface.
  3. Take the other half of the sponge and place it on top of the cream.

Using a brush spread the remaining syrup evenly on the top of the sponge.

  1. Cover the cake with cling film and put in the fridge for two hours until the cream gets set.

Remove from the fridge after two hours and place on a cutting board.

  1. With a sharp knife remove the edges and then cut in squares.

Using a tablespoon, cover each square with the chocolate icing.

  1. Decorate with whipped cream and dark chocolate prices.

Place in the fridge for two hours. Enjoy!

See great recipes for "Amandine" Chocolate sponge cake too! Making the glazing: When you have already taken the cake out of the fridge, you can start making the glazing. In a pot, melt the dark chocolate with some butter and just a bit of milk. Stir it into a semi-thick mixture. Amandine / Romanian Chocolate Sponge Cake.

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