Eurovision party recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has chocolate, butter, vanilla extract, coffee, almond, plain flour, salt, egg, golden caster sugar, raspberry, raspberry jam, dark chocolate, double cream and icing sugar.
Raspberry chocolate torte
Course: Eurovision party
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Dark Chocolate: 140g dark chocolate, 70% cocoa solids, chopped
- Egg: 5 eggs
- Butter: 175g unsalted butter, chopped, diced
- Raspberry: 12 fresh or defrosted frozen raspberries, plus about 40 more for decoration
- Almond: 100g toasted almonds
- Plain Flour: 2 heaped tbsp plain flour
- Salt: 1/2 tsp salt
- Golden Caster Sugar: 140g golden caster sugar
- Vanilla Extract: 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Double Cream: 100ml double cream
- Icing Sugar: icing sugar and sweet vanilla cream, to serve
- Coffee: 1/4 tsp instant coffee powder or extract
- Chocolate: 225g dark chocolate, 70% cocoa solids
- Raspberry Jam: 4 tbsp raspberry jam
Directions
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Line the bases of two 23cm cake tins with baking parchment. Melt the chocolate and butter in the microwave; leave to cool. Stir in the vanilla and coffee powder.
- Whizz the almonds in a food processor until finely ground, then add flour and salt, and transfer to a bowl. Whisk the eggs with an electric mixer for 5 mins, until doubled in volume. Slowly add the sugar, whisk for 1 min more. Fold in the cooled chocolate mixture until just combined. Sprinkle over half the flour mixture and fold in, then the other half. The mixture will be rather runny.
- Divide between the two tins and bake for about 15 mins until a skewer comes out with a few crumbs attached - the sponges should be slightly undercooked. Cool in tin, then turn out onto a wire rack.
- Choose the less perfect of the two, then set it on a serving plate. Mash 12 raspberries and stir in the jam. Spread on the base, then top with the other cake.
- For the glaze, bring the cream to the boil, pour it over the chocolate and whisk until smooth. Leave for a few mins until starting to thicken, then spread over the top and sides to cover. Decorate with raspberries. Chill for up to 24 hrs. Remove from fridge 1 hr before serving, dust with icing sugar, and serve with vanilla cream.
