Step one. Shortcake dough.
You need to take Ingredients:
– 13 oz flour
– 5 oz cocoa powder
– 6 oz sugar
– 3 oz almonds
– 11 oz softened butter
– 4 eggs
Preparation:
Mix the flour, sugar, cocoa and ground almonds on the table, then make a recess in the center. Put there chopped small pieces of butter (the oil should not be hard!). Stir this mixture with your hands until it looks like sand. Beat the eggs and knead the dough until obtaining a homogeneous and smooth mass. Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Roll out the dough into a pancake about 0.2 inches thick put in a pre-greased butter round shape with no bottom and place in a cool place.
Step two. Filling.
You need to take Ingredients:
– 22 oz apples
– 2 oz butter
– 3 tablespoons of sugar
Preparation:
Put a frying pan on the fire, add 3 tablespoons of sugar, add 1 tablespoon of water and prepare the caramel. As soon as it gets a beautiful color, add 2 oz of oil, stir with a spoon and put the peeled and quartered apples. Fry them for 3-4 minutes. transfer to a dish and cool.
Step three. The sauce, assembling and baking.
You need to take Ingredients:
– 6 oz sugar
– 2 oz ground almonds
– 2 eggs
– 9 oz liquid cream
Preparation:
In a bowl, whisk the eggs with the sugar with a broom. Add ground almonds and cream. Place the form without a bottom with the dough placed in it on a baking sheet covered with a sheet of parchment paper. Put the apples with caramel on the dough, pour the sauce over them and put them to bake in the oven at 350 F for 25-30 minutes. Once the bottom of the cake is slightly browned, remove it from the oven and cool on the cake rack.
Step four. Cream and decoration.
You need to take Ingredients:
– 7 oz dark chocolate
– 14 oz liquid cream
– 1 oz powdered sugar
– Chocolate chip
Preparation:
Finely chop the chocolate, pour it into a bowl and melt in a water bath at a temperature of 110 F. with a broom or mixer, whisk the cream. Add a third of the whipped cream to the chocolate, whisk vigorously with a broom, and then carefully enter the remaining cream.
Using a pastry bag with a nozzle, fill the center of the cake with whipped chocolate cream. Sprinkle the chocolate chips and powdered sugar on top.