Chocolate Almond Cake with Hojiblanca olives
Ingredients
• Eggs – 4 lrg
• Soft butter – 5 tablespoons
• Sugar – 1/3 cup
• Lady fingers - 6
• Almonds (skinless, toasted, ground)- 85 grams
• Shaved Chocolate – 70 grams
• Milk – 4 oz
• Rum – 2 ½ oz
• Cornstarch- 1 tablespoon
• Ap flour – 1 tablespoon
• Cocoa powder – 1 tablespoon
• Black olive powder – 1 ½ tablespoons
Directions
In a stand mixer whisk the butter, black olive powder, and sugar until smooth
Add egg yolks one at a time continuously mixing. Add the ground almonds and shaved chocolate and mix on low
In another bowl, pour in the milk and rum and soak the lady fingers in the mixture until soft, then add to the butter sugar mixture. Mix well and add the flour and cornstarch and mix
Beat the egg whites to a stiff peek and fold into the batter using a spatula
Bake at 360 in a 9 inch pan on the middle rack of the oven, check in 20 minuets, test with a toothpick until it comes out clean
Cool down the cake on a rack
Dust with a mixture of powdered sugar, coca powder and black olive powder.