Caprese Cake with Hot Chocolate


Servings: 8
Prep time: 20
Cooking time: 45
INGREDIENTS
  • - 150 g almond flour
  • - 100 g of sugar
  • - 90 g of butter
  • - 100 g of dark chocolate
  • - 3 eggs
  • - 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
  • - 1 tablespoon potato starch
  • - 1 tablespoon of cognac
  • - 1 tablespoon pine nuts
  • - 1 tablespoon almonds
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Beat the egg yolks with the sugar, add the brandy, the room temperatured butter, cocoa and potato starch, stirring after each addition.
  2. Mix the almond flour to the mixture and then add the egg whites, stirring gently. Grease a baking dish with a diameter of 22 cm (or line it with baking paper) and pour in the mixture. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 170 ° C.
  3. Let the cake cool down. Just before serving, sprinkle with the still warm melted chocolate is and decorate as desired with pine nuts or almond slivers.