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Chocolate & spéculoos cake in 15 min and without baking!

December 29, 2020
chocolate cake

Hi guys, I hope you had a happy & healthy Christmas, although you could not enjoy being physically with all your relatives. Thanks god nowadays we have the chance to use Internet to connect us during this crazy science-fiction movie we are all playing in! It looks so unreal that sometimes I really feel like being Jim Carrey in the Truman show ahah, don’t you?!

Another great way to cheer us up during the quarantine is fooooooood of course (and lots of alcohol). So here we go, today I wanted to share with you a delicious recipe for chocolate lovers that we tested with my mum as a Christmas dessert: a chocolate & spéculoos cake!

This recipe needs only 15mins of preparation and 0 min of baking! In other words, it is the perfect chocolate cake recipe if you have no time to cook and no oven as you just have to get the preparation ready, put it in the fridge and wait 😉

chocolate cake

Ingredients:

  • 300g of butter
  • 600g of dark chocolate
  • ½ little spoon of diluted soluble coffee
  • 2 eggs
  • 100g of sugar glass
  • 200g of spéculoos
  • Bitter cocoa
  • Fresh red fruits as raspberry, strawberry or blueberry

Preparation:

  1. First of all, melt the chocolate with butter put in pieces.
  2. Mix with a spatula until you get a super smooth and shining cream.
  3. Mix in a bowl the sugar with the eggs.
  4. Remove from the fire the chocolate preparation and add inside the sugar and eggs mix.
  5. Add the diluted soluble coffee and mix.
  6. Crush the spéculoos biscuits and add them to the preparation. Try to have some pieces bigger to taste them better in the cake J
  7. Cut in pieces the red fruits. Try to have irregular pieces, and keep some fruits full to give to your cake a yummy texture. And add them delicately to the preparation.
  8. Pour into a mold lined with baking paper.
  9. Place whole speculoos on top of the preparation to create a very crispy and delicious cake base.
  10. Keep the chocolate cake in the fridge at least 4 hours.
  11. Unmold the cake on a cute serving platter.
  12. Sprinkle the top of the cake with cocoa powder and garnish with plenty of berries. Be generous, it will look beautylicious!

Et voila, bon appétit!

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3 chocolates cake

February 26, 2017

Dear chocolate lovers, this recipe is for YOU! You should also be crazy about it if you are fascinated by unicorns because it has 3 different chocolate layers like a rainbow: dark chocolate, chocolate with milk and finally white chocolate! In fact this chocolate cake is as beautiful as delicious! If CHOCOLATE is your religion and this picture makes your mouth water, you definitely need to taste this 3 chocolate cake! Bisous, Melissa ♡

 

3 chocolate cake recipe

Ingredients:

  • The base: 200g of biscuits, 100g of butter
  • Dark chocolate layer: 150g of dark chocolate, 200ml of light liquid cream, 200ml of milk, 1 sachet of cuajada
  • Chocolate with milk layer: 150g of milk chocolate, 200ml of light liquid cream, 200ml of milk, 1 sachet of cuajada
  • White chocolate layer: 150g of milk chocolate, 200ml of light liquid cream, 200ml of milk, 1 sachet of cuajada

Preparation:

  1. Start with the base: smash the biscuits with a mixer. Then combine this powder of biscuit with the butter and place the mix at the bottom of the mold or cookie cutter with an oven paper underneath. Keep it in the fridge.
  2. Prepare the dark chocolate layer: warm the cream with 100ml of milk in a pan. When the mix is getting hot, add the squares of chocolate and stir constantly making sure it never boils. While the chocolate mixture is getting darker, combine in a bowl the rest of the milk with the cuajada. Once the chocolate blend is ready (around 7min cooking) add to the pan the mix of milk and cuajada, stir again constantly and increase the fire until it is boiling. Keep stirring during 2 min and remove from the fire. Wait 3 min and add delicately the dark chocolate layer to the mold.
  3. While the dark chocolate layer is refreshing and getting solid, prepare the milk chocolate layer with the same process. Wait 20min between each layer.
  4. Prepare the white chocolate layer.
  5. Keep the 3 chocolates cake 1 day in the fridge.
  6. Your chocolate cake is ready! Enjoy!!

Want to taste another dessert with chocolate? Discover my tasty and healthy pancake recipe here;)