Ingredients
- 250 g butter, softened
- 250 g sugar
- 4 eggs
- 200 g dried walnuts
- 100 g chocolate (70% dessert chocolate)
- 250 g flour
- 1 sachet of baking powder
- For the chocolate glaze
- 100 g chocolate (70% dessert chocolate)
- 2 tbsp. double cream (30% fat)
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
2. Grease a baking tin with butter and dust with flour. Finely grind the walnuts and chocolate.
3. Beat the softened butter with the sugar until fluffy. Add the 4 eggs one by one. Then add the ground walnuts and chocolate, followed by the flour sifted with the baking powder and mix everything. Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin.
4. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes, then remove and let cool on a wire rack.
5. For the chocolate glaze, melt 100 g of chocolate in a water bath and add the cream. Cover the cake with the glaze. Allow one day for the walnut flavours of the cake to unfold. Dust with icing sugar before serving.
Recipe : ALICE STEFFEN-MAJERUS
