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 ....