Friday, 13 November 2015

Autumn birthday cake for great grandfather’s 80th birthday

Caroline’s great grandfather turned 80 and we were all asked to bring a cake for the party. I planned something spectacular, but as the case often is in this house, things didn’t go according to plan, so I had to down scale and improvise.



My father and my husband kindly volunteered the comment that the look was boring and that they had expected something more creative. I will suggest that they are spoiled when it comes to cakes!

The cake was a chocolate/nut cake:

4 egg yokes whipped light with 75g brown sugar. Add 150 g chopped chocolate, 50 g chopped hazelnut, 50 g chopped pistachio nuts, orange zest from 1 orange and 25 g flour. Gently add 4 egg whites beaten stiff with 75 g brown sugar. Bake in a well-greased baking tray with baking paper at the bottom for approx. 1 hour at 170 degrees.

A there were quite a big number of guests, I have 2 1/2 time the above-mentioned amounts.

Once out of the oven pour ginger syrup over the cake: orange juice, sugar and ginger.


Once completely cooled covered in nougat and marzipan.

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