Box of Chocolates

Name: Box of Chocolates
Yield: Serves 25 Big or 36 Small Portions
Ingredients: 270 ml double cream; 60 g unsalted butter; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 250 g golden caster sugar; 300 g 70% cocoa solids chocolate, broken into pieces; 340 g ground almonds; pinch of salt; a box of your favourite chocolates; 260 g unsalted butter, diced, plus more for the tin; 300 g 70% cocoa solids chocolate, chopped; 6 tbsp apricot jam, to glaze; 8 eggs, separated

Flourless Sachertorte

Preparation info

Serves
25
Big

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

A sensational dark and very grown-up cake. It is not a classic version of the famous Viennese Sachertorte, but all the more moist and rich. Decorate with the birthday girl or boy’s favourite chocolates, and don’t count calories! This cake is so moist that it keeps well for days and freezes brilliantly.

Ingredients

For the Cake

260 g unsalted butter, diced, plus more for the tin
300 g 70% cocoa solids chocolate, chopped

Birthday
Chocolate
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/fan 150°C/325°F/gas mark 3. Lightly butter a 25cm square tin and line the base with baking parchment.

Melt the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl over very gently simmering water, making sure the bowl does not touch the water. Set