Christmas Calendar 2016 - Christmas chocolate cake

A chocolate cake was also be turned into a Christmas version. I have used a recipe from the magazine "Isabellas" (issue 7/2015), and the only modification is, that I have not coated the chocolate cake in layer of dark chocolate.

The taste is very rich with it´s Christmas spices and use of dried fruits and nuts.

Christmas chocolate cake: - 1 cake

• 300 g sugar
• 4 eggs
• 220 g (cake) wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1½ dl dairy whipping cream, 35-40% fat
• 100 g butter
• 100 g dark chocolate with orange flavour - roughly chopped
• 50 g dried apricot - medium chopped
• 50 g date - medium chopped
• 40 g pickled ginger - finely chopped
• 40 g walnuts - medium chopped
• 40 g pistachio nuts - medium chopped

1. Heat up the oven to 180'C.
2. Add the butter and dark to a cooking pot. Melt the butter and chocolate together uver medium heat.
3. Whip the sugar and egg together into a foamy mass in a medium size mixing bowl.
4. Add into the flour, baking powder, spices, cocoa powder, whip everything together.
5. Add in the whipping cream little by little, while whipping.
6. Add in the melted butter-chocolate, while whipping.
7. Add into the chopped fruit and nuts, stir in by hand.
8. Cover a 2 l baking form with baking paper.
9. Fill the dough into the form.
10. Place the form in middle of the oven, bake at 180'C for 50-70 minutes.
11. Check the cake mass after 40 minutes, if it is baked.
12. Cold down the down on a rack, before the cake is sliced.
13. Enjoy the cake together with a nice cup of tea.