Ingredients
Sponge
120 g of chocolate sponge mix
2 eggs
30 ml of milk
30 g of butter (melted)
Coffee Liquid
20 ml of cold water
2 tbsp of sugar
2 tbsp of Kahlúa coffee liqueur
10 sponge fingers
30 g of macadamia nuts (chopped)
Chocolate Cream
200 g of chocolate (broken into pieces)
2 tbsp of unsalted butter
200 g of fresh cream( whipped)
Preparation
- To make sponge cake, preheat oven to 180°C; line bottom of a 18cm (7-cin) cake tin with greaseproof paper.
- Beat sponge mix, eggs and milk in a mixer with high speed until light and fluffy.
- Turn to low speed, mix in melted butter until well blended.
- Spread batter into prepared tin and bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Split into 2 layers.
- To make coffee liqueur, combine cold water, sugar and Kahlúa coffee
liqueur until blended.
- To make chocolate cream, melt chocolate and unsalted butter over boiling water.
- Fold in whipping cream.
- Place a slice sponge cake into cake tin.
- Brush with coffee liquid and spread with chocolate cream.
- Sprinkle with some chopped macadamia nuts.
- Dip sponge fingers into coffee liqueur and arrange on to the cream.
- Continue layering until sponge fingers finished.
- Cover with sponge cake.
- Refrigerate for a while.
- Coat cake with remaining cream.
- Decorate sides with chocolate and top with cocoa powder.
- Or decorate as desired.
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