Chocolate Almond Spice Cake
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- softened butter (for greasing the pan)
- Pastry flour (for the pan)
- 5 eggs
- 300 grams softened butter
- 225 grams brown sugar
- 2 Tbsps Vanilla sugar
- 250 grams Pastry flour
- 50 grams ground almonds
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 generous pinch Orange zest
- ½ tsp ground Cardamom
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch ground cloves
- 1 pinch ground allspice
- 75 grams Dark chocolate
- 40 grams raisins
- 50 grams banched almonds
- 1 pinch salt
- 150 milliliters Red wine
- 2 Tbsps Orange marmalade
Preparation steps
Preheat the oven to 180°C (approximately 350°F). Grease the loaf pan with butter and dust with flour.
Separate the eggs. Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla sugar until creamy. Add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Combine the flour, ground almonds, baking powder, orange zest and spices in a separate bowl. Finely chop the dark chocolate, raisins and almonds. Beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff. Stir the flour mixture into the egg yolk mixture alternately with the red wine and egg whites. Lastly, fold in the chopped chocolate, raisins and almonds. Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 50-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly in the pan, then transfer to a wire rack and brush with the orange marmalade.
