Delicious chocolate Cake and a Happy Birthday

This chocolate cake is really special and nice with ground almonds, ginger and orange zest and chocolate glaze is for any time.
In fact it is the cake I chose to say happy birthday to me LOL ....... So are all invited to eat a piece of cake here in my blog!
This lovely recipe is from Martita Serani a chef and teacher cook from here and the recipe is from her  last cooking book "Imperdibles"
I made these little roses with marzipan but you can garnish with berries too.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups of grind almonds
(peel and toasted)
1 cup of panko or  breadcrumbs
1 1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 cup all purpose flour
180 grs. butter softened
1 tablespoon of ginger powder or fresh
1 orange the peel grated
6 eggs
200 grs. bitter chocolate in pieces

Syrup

2 tablespoon of sugar
3 tablespoon of water
2 tablespoon of rum

Glaze

250 grs. bitter chocolate
1/2 cup of butter
1/2 cup of heavy cream

Method


Preheat oven to 180 ° c. In a large bowl beat butter orange zest and ginger. Mix well with a wooden spoon until a homogeneous mixture. Add eggs one at a time and continue beating to mix well.
 Apart melt chocolate on medium power can also be melted in a double boiler. Add chocolate to egg mixture and almonds. Add the panko or bread crumbs and flour.
Incorporate well. Line the base of a mold 20 or 22 cm. with foil. Butter and flour.
Pour mixture into the mold and bake for 20 minutes no more should be slightly moist. Besides boiling water with sugar for the syrup. Cool and add the rum.
With a thin skewer to prick the surface of the cake and pour the syrup. Allow to cool.
To glaze Melt in a microwave safe bowl (average temperature) butter cream and chocolate and stir until removal is a smooth mixture if necessary to put a little more in the microwave. Cool slightly glaze should be warm.
Cover the cake and decorate with marzipan or berries.
 You can also sprinkle with  toasted almonds.
 Leave at room temperature does not need refrigeration
Enjoy!


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EN ESPAÑOL


Tarta de chocolate

Escogí esta tarta a pesar de que no soy tan fanática del chocolate pero me tincó y ha sido un acierto.
Quería hacer algo especial por mi cumpleaños que es hoy.
Asi que los invito a todos a compartir un pedazo de torta de chocolate aqui en mi blog un abrazo.
Esta torta está adaptada de una receta del libro de Martita Serani "Imperdibles"!

Ingredientes

1 1/2 taza de almendras molidas (peladas y tostadas)
1 1/2 taza de azúcar granulada
ralladura de 1 naranja
1 cucharada de jengibre molido fresco
180 grs. de mantequilla
6 huevos
1 taza de panko o pan rallado
200 grs. de chocolate bitter en trozos


Almíbar

2 cucharadas de azúcar
3 cucharadas de agua
2 cucharadas de ron

Glaseado

250 grs. chocolate bitter
1/2 taza de mantequilla
1/2 taza de crema

Preparación

Precalentar el hono a 180°c.

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