
Recipe for making chocolate cake with grapefruit:
Ingredients:
– 200 g of dark chocolate
– 200 g of butter
– 250 g of sugar
– 4 eggs
– 150 g of flour
– 1 teaspoon of baking powder
– A pinch of salt
– 2 grapefruit
– 200 ml of cream
– 50 g of sugar powder
Steps:
1. Heat the oven to 180 ° C. Prepare the baking dish, grease it with oil and sprinkle with flour.
2. Melt dark chocolate and butter in a water bath or in a microwave. Let it cool a little.
3. In a large bowl, mix sugar and eggs, whipping until thick and homogeneous mass.
4. Add a cooled chocolate-oil syrup to the egg-sahar mixture and mix gently.
5. Sprinkle flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt, mix thoroughly until the smooth dough is obtained.
6. Pour the dough into a prepared shape and send it to the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes, or until the cake becomes elastic to the touch. Check readiness with a wooden skewer: if it comes out dry, then the cake is ready.
7. At this time, prepare a grapefruit cream. Remove the zest from one grapefruit and squeeze the juice of two grapefruits.
8. In a bowl, beat the cream with powdered sugar until a lush texture is formed. Add grapefruit zest and juice, continue to whip until smooth.
9. When the cake cools down, remove it from the mold and cut it in half horizontally. Light half with grapefruit cream and cover with a soulmate.
10. If desired, you can decorate the cake with chocolate icing or sprinkle with a cocoa powder.
The finished chocolate cake with a grapefruit is ready for serving. Bon appetit!