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Chocolate cake
Ingredients:
90 g soft butter
90 g fi ne crystal sugar
1 – 2 eggs
80 – 90 g fl our
1 – ½ TBSP cocao
1 – ½ TBSP jam to taste e.g. cherry, wild berry etc.
60 – 90 g chocolate (70 % cocao), in pieces
½ – 1 TBSP grated orange rind
If needed grease for the pan
A pinch of salt
Preparation:
1. Add the butter and sugar to a mixing bowl and use a hand-held blender to beat them
for about 5 minutes until a light, creamy mass is formed.
2. Add the eggs and stir everything together.
3. Add the fl our, the cocao powder and a pinch of salt and mix everything thoroughly.
4. Add the jam, the chocolate pieces and the grated orange rind, combine well.
5. Grease the bread baking basket well.
6. Put the dough in the bread baking basket and smooth the surface with a dough
scraper.
7. Place the bread baking basket in the basket insert and put it in the tray.
8. Place the tray in the main unit.
9. Set the cooking temperature to approx. 160 °C.
10. Set the timer to approx. 15 minutes.
11. Turn the bread baking basket 180° after the 15 minutes have elapsed.
12. Set the timer to approx. 15 minutes again.
13. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out
dry.
14. Let the cake rest in the pan for 5 minutes. Then take it out and let it cool off on a
cake rack.
Variations:
– substitute the cacao powder with juice and the grated peel of half a lemon
– substitute the cacao powder with the pulp of a vanilla pod
– replace the chocolate pieces with 2 TBSP of fi nely chopped, candied
ginger
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