Rehruecken

This is a chocolate cake recipe I found online. Posting for ZWT6 (Germany/Austria).

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 6  eggs
• 1⁄2 cup  plus 1 tbsp sugar
• 3⁄4 cup flour
• 2  tablespoons butter
• 1⁄2 cup  poundcake, crumbs
• 1 1⁄2 ounces  cocoa
•  cinnamon
•  grated lemon peel

• Glaze

• 2 3⁄4 ounces  semisweet baking chocolate
• 1  cup  less 2 tbsp sugar
•  currant jelly
• 1 3⁄4 ounces  slivered almonds

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Combine the whole eggs with the sugar, hold the bowl over some steaming water, and beat until cooled off.
3. Add flour, cake crumbs, cinnamon and lemon peel.
4. Then add the melted butter with the cocoa.
5. Pour into a well greased and floured Rehruecken mold, bake 45 minutes at medium heat (350 degrees F), cut through once, fill with currant jelly, ice with chocolate glaze and stud with almond slivers.