Dromtarta - Swedish Chocolate Dream Cake
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
-
Cake
- 118.29 ml flour
- 78.78 ml cocoa (preferably Dutch type)
- 7.39 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml salt
- 1.23 ml baking soda
- 3 eggs
- 44.37 ml water
- 4.92 ml vanilla
- 177.44 ml granulated sugar
- confectioners' sugar
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Dream Filling
- 177.44 ml unsalted butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 59.14 ml cocoa (preferably Dutch type)
- 709.77 ml confectioners' sugar
- 44.37 ml rum or 44.37 ml cognac
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
-
Cake:
- Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
- Combine eggs, water and vanilla and beat until thick and lemon-colored. Add granulated sugar gradually (1 tbsp at a time) and beat thoroughly after each addition.
- Slowly sift flour mixture into egg mixture and fold in carefully, but thoroughly.
- Grease a 15x10 in jelly-roll pan and line w/waxed paper. Spread batter evenly in pan and bake 30 minutes or till cake tests done. Touch cake lightly w/fingertip. If the dough springs back quickly, the cake is done.
- Sprinkle a kitchen towel heavily with confectioner's sugar . Turn cake onto kitchen towel and peel off waxed paper. Trim off any crisp edges. Roll warm cake lengthwise in towel into a roll. Cool on rack, seam side down.
- Filling - Cream butter with egg yolk and cocoa. Beat in sugar gradually, alternating w/rum. Keep at room temp for spreading.
- Cake Assembly - Unroll cake and spread with filling. Reroll and refrigerate till serving time.
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