Fairtrade Chocolate Recipes – Spiced Chocolate and Almond Cake
November 3, 2008
Spiced Chocolate and Almond Cake
By Andrew Rose, Floridita, London.
Made for the 10th Anniversary of the FAIRTRADE Mark.
Ingredients
300g Fairtrade dark chocolate
100g ground almonds
175g butter (softened)
Fairtrade cocoa powder for dusting
175g Fairtrade sugar
1 tbsp mixed spice
25g plain flour (sieved)
6 eggs (separated)
Method
- Preheat oven to 170c Grease a 8 – 8 1/2-inch cake tin and dust well with Fairtrade cocoa powder.
- After separating the eggs, cream together the egg yolks and 130g of the sugar until they become light and fluffy.
- Mix together the ground almonds, flour and mixed spices.
- Whisk the egg whites and remaining sugar to stiff peaks.
- Melt the chocolate with the butter and leave to cool.
- Mix the melted chocolate and butter with the egg yolk mixture.
- Then fold in the whipped egg whites, starting with 1/3 of the mix followed by the rest.
- Finally, gradually fold in the flour mix, making sure that the batter remains light and aerated.
- Pour the finished batter into the cake tin and bake for approximately 1 hour or until the cake becomes firm and springy to the touch, when lightly pressed in the middle.
Once left to cool, slice and serve with clotted cream.