Chocolate Rum Truffle Cake

Name: Chocolate Rum Truffle Cake
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Makes: 12-portion cake
Ingredients: 120 g / 4 oz butter; 200 g / 7 oz plain dessert chocolate; 3 eggs; 120 g / 4 oz dark muscovado sugar; 90 g / 3 oz self-raising flour; 2 tbs dark rum; 200 ml / 7 fl oz single cream; 60 g / 2 oz ground almonds; 2 tbs dark cocoa powder

Preparation info

Makes:
12
-portion cake

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
25 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

Two layers of chocolate almond cake sandwiched with a truffle filling and decorated with twelve chocolate rum truffles. Ideal for a special tea-time or for serving with coffee at the end of a meal.

Ingredients

200 g / 7 oz plain dessert chocolate
120 g / 4

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Break the chocolate into pieces in a mixing bowl and melt in a microwave or a warm oven. Sift the sugar into the bowl and add the butter. Use an electric beater to mix the ingredients together until light and fluffy. Mix in the eggs, one at a time, and stir in the sifted flour, then the ground almonds. Divide the mixture between the prepared cake tins and smooth level.

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