Chocolate Truffle Cake

Simply divine Uwe from Highfoodality has probably the recipe for the best chocolate truffle cake on his blog . I have revised it with little modifications. My supperclub guests were thrilled.  Thank you Uwe....

The cake shown on the photo above was served at a supperclub for celebrating the birthday of a guest.

Prepare a short pastry layer
 300 g flour
 200 g soft butter
 80 g icing sugar

1 egg

1 pinch of salt

Bake it in the oven for about 40 minutes. Put it aside until it's cold.

Prepare the truffle layer
 250 g dark chocolate
 280 g cream
 40 g butter
 1 egg yolk
 ½ Tea spoon cinnamon
 ¼ Teaspoon of aniseed
 ½ Teaspoon Printen spice 
 1 pinch of salt
 1 teaspoon vanilla
 3 tablespoons Cointreau
 

Warm-up the cream, add chocolate until it has melted (do not boil!!!) . Add all spices, a little pinch of salt and Cointreau. Then add the butter and finally carefully fold in the fluffy beaten egg yolk. Spread it in a mould or, as I did in this recipe, on a layer of shortcrust pastry. Put the mould in the fridge for about 7 hours. Decorate and ....