The cream filling is a wonderful, aromatic, beautiful combination of chocolate and hazelnut. I am not a fan of pudding and simple whipped cream fillings and so I pay a lot of attention to the preparation of good cream because it is the most important part in the whole cake. The base is similar to a cheesecake base.
Ingredients:
Cream filling
- 3 eggs
- 100 g sugar (3.5 oz)
- 150 g dark chocolate (5 oz)
- 150 g butter (5 oz)
- 100 g ground roasted hazelnuts (3.5 oz)
- 1 sachet of whipping chocolate cream powder (prepared according the instructions on the bag) or use one dose of chocolate whipping cream (what's available in your place)
- 300 g of crushed biscuits (10 oz)
- 2 sachets of vanilla sugar (2-3 tbs or use a vanilla extract)
- 50 g melted butter (1.7 oz)
- 120 ml of orange juice (4 liquid oz)
- 100 g dark chocolate (3.5 oz)
- 100 ml whipping cream (3.4 liquid oz)
- cherry cake topping (available in markets)
- whipped cream
- red fruit for decoration
- First, begin with the cream filling.
- Whisk the eggs with the sugar in a saucepan and then set the saucepan on fire to cook the mixture briefly. Stir constantly, add the chocolate and butter to melt, mix well and leave the saucepan aside in a cold place to cool.
- Prepare the base, crush the biscuits in a blender or finely crush them using a tool or a bottle, mix with vanilla sugar, melted butter and orange juice. You can add 1 tsp of cocoa to make the base darker. Align this mixture in the mold and distribute it well. Press with your fingers.
- Continue with the cream filling preparation. Briefly roast the hazelnuts and ground them in a blender.
- Prepare the whipped chocolate cream.
- Add the hazelnuts and the prepared whipping cream to the pre-cooled chocolate cream filling and mix with a mixer. Distribute the resulting cream filling over the base and spread well.
- Put the chocolate to melt along with the whipping cream, mix and apply this glaze on top. Place the cake in the freezer for about 1 hour.
- Then decorate from above as desired. I put a cherry cake topping, it has a wonderful aroma and taste that complements with the chocolate. Decorate with white whipped cream that has beautiful contact with the cherry topping.