World Chocolate Day is celebrated this Friday and we propose some proposals in which this ingredient is king.
Dark chocolate cake
The recipe for this chocolate cake is from Restaurant Real, next to Teatro Rivoli, in Porto, younger brother of Casa da Calçada, in Amarante.
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ingredients:
200 grams of butter
200g chocolate (100g milk, 100g 70% dark chocolate)
125 grams of water
165 grams of eggs
250 grams of brown sugar
75 grams of milk
100 gr of t55 flour
25 grams of
cocoa powder
1 gram of royal yeast
1.2 grams of baking soda
Chocolate ganache (to be placed on top of the cake):
250 grams of sao tome chocolate
300 grams of cream
preparation mode:
- Melt the butter and chocolate in a water bath.
- Add eggs and sugar and add milk.
- Add the melted chocolate to the egg mixture and add the rest of the dry ingredients.
- Bake at 160 degrees for 35 minutes.
- Make the ganache by mixing the chocolate with the cream in a saucepan.
- Remove the cake from the mold and decorate with ganache.
Warm chocolate cake with strawberry ice cream
Born just under a year ago, in Cascais, Lota da Esquina is another project by chef Victor Sobral. This is a dessert recipe that you can try in this restaurant.
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ingredients:
200 grams of dark chocolate
180 grams of unsalted butter
180 grams of sugar
6 eggs
80 grams of wheat flour
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420 grams of vanilla ice cream
How to prepare:
- Melt the chocolate and incorporate it into the melted butter.
- Combine eggs with sugar and beat with a mixer until doubled in volume.
- Gently mix the eggs with the chocolate, then the flour.
- Let her rest in the cold.
- Grease the molds with butter and flour and put the dough.
- Bake it at 180 degrees for 5 minutes
- Served with a scoop of ice cream.
Moist chocolate cake, red fruits, vanilla and ginger
a chef Fábio Alves is in charge of destinations at Restaurant Suba, in Lisbon, and proposes a chocolate cake where red fruits are mixed with ginger. At the end, add a scoop of ice cream.
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ingredients:
125 grams of cocoa chocolate 72%
125 grams of butter
3 eggs
25 grams of sifted flour
75 grams of sugar
7 grams of baking powder
7gr fleur de sel
1 gram of pink pepper
to prepare:
- Melt the chocolate in a bain marie with fleur de sel and pepper.
- Beat the yolks with the sugar until a white cream is formed, add it to the chocolate and mix well. For this preparation, we add the previously raised egg whites and finally the flour, fold the ingredients carefully, and then put them in the oven on a tray with parchment paper at 170 degrees, about 10 to 15 minutes, (the idea is that the cake does not cook completely). Let it cool.
Crispy ginger
ingredients:
20 grams of sifted flour
20 grams of sugar
1 egg white
15 grams of melted butter
7 grams of grated ginger
to prepare:
- Put all the ingredients together in a bowl, mix well, spread the preparation on parchment paper and bake at 180 degrees for 5 minutes.
- With the help of a heart-shaped pastry cutter, make the crackers in this shape and put them back in the oven for about 3 more minutes, until crispy.
red fruits
ingredients:
50 grams of strawberries
20 g of currants
10 grams of blueberries
to prepare:
- Crush 40g of strawberries and place this preparation on the base of the dish.
- Arrange the remaining berries on the plate with the cake and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
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