"This chocolate cake with cookies is definitely the most favorite dessert for the afternoon tea of Her Majesty for a very long year," says the chef of the royal family Darren McGrade. - She always eats him to the last piece. If, for example, Queen Elizabeth did not eat it in the Buckingham Palace and is going to go to the Windsor Castle, then the remains of the cake are going after it follows. I myself personally travel with a packed in a box of half a cake kneeling by train from London to Windsor. "
"Another big fan of this cake is Prince William," continues the chef. "And it was he who was a fiancé cake at William's wedding with Kate Middleton." The fact is that the prince as a child loved to speak with her grandmother and fell in love with this dessert after her. "
However, to the joy of sweet tooths, Darren McGreidi does not secrets from the recipe for his chocolate cake with cookies and willingly shares them. In addition, it is very easy to prepare.
So the favorite cake of Queen UK looks like
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Ingredients:
- ½ teaspoon oil for lubrication form;
- 200 g of sweet crackers;
- 100 g of soft butter;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 100 g of dark chocolate;
- 1 egg;
- 200 g of dark chocolate for glaze;
- 30 g of chocolate for decoration.
Lightly lubricate the ring for the cake of oil and place it on the baking sheet, styled with parchment paper. Break away every cracker to pieces of sizes with almond nut and postpone.
In a big bowl, mix the oil and sugar until the mixture becomes bright. Melt 100 g of dark chocolate and add to the sugar and oil mixture, constantly stirring. Add an egg and sweat to a homogeneous mass.
Put into the mixture a pieces of crackers so that they are completely immersed in this chocolate mass. Place the spoon the mixture into the ring for the cake. Try to fill all the gaps at the bottom of the ring, because after it will be the riding cake.
Put the cake in the refrigerator at least three hours. Then remove the cake from the refrigerator and let him stand.
Meanwhile, melt 200 g of chocolate in a water bath. Remove the ring from the cake and turn it upside down. Pour melted chocolate on the cake evenly distributing it along the top and sides using a blade.
Allow chocolate to catch at room temperature. Gently cut the residues of a spreading chocolate and put the cake to the plate. Melt the remaining 30 g of chocolate and use it to decorate the cake.