Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 20 pcs egg yolks
- 15 pcs egg whites
- 625 g sugar (sieved)
- 250 g chocolate (sieved)
- 250 g starch (sieved)
- 75 g candied lemon peel (finely chopped)
- 2 g cinnamon
- vanilla (ground with sugar) (a piece)
- 0.5 cup brandy
Instructions
- Beat egg yolks with sugar, candied lemon peel, and cinnamon for fifteen minutes, then fold in the chocolate with very stiff egg white peaks, and then the starch.
- Once everything is well mixed, stir in the brandy.
- Bake like a pound cake and glaze with icing.
Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.
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