Chocolate Chip Stollen Piñata Cake
Serves: 8
This combines two favourite festive pastimes – stollen and chocolate coins!
Ingredients:
For the cake:
200g unsalted butter200g caster sugar
200g ground almonds
100g fine polenta
1 ½ tsp baking powder
3 large free-range eggs
85g chocolate chips
100g mixed peel
pinch of nutmeg
100g marzipan – rolled into little balls
½ tsp almond essence
dried cranberries
icing sugar
extra marzipan for decorating
For the chocolate coins:
100g dark chocolate100g milk chocolate
100g white chocolate
freeze-dried raspberries
vegetarian pink chocolate colouring
method:
- Turn your oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. We used a silicone bundt tin but if you only have a tin version at home, make sure you heavily grease it.
- Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until pale, light and fluffy. While you continue to beat, add your eggs one by one. Mix together the almonds, polenta and baking powder and beat this into the wet mixture. Gently fold in the chocolate chips, mixed peel, nutmeg, marzipan and almond essence into the batter until just incorporated. Careful not to overmix.
- Bake for 40 minutes - 1 hour. When you prick the cake with a skewer in the centre, it should come out clean. Leave to cool.
- Line a 24 mini muffin tin with individual circles of parchment on the bottom of each mould.
- In separate bowls, melt the chocolates in the microwave on a low setting, stirring every 30 seconds.
- Pour about 2mm worth of chocolate into each mould using a variety of the chocolates. Using a teaspoon, dollop a tiny bit of the leftover dark chocolate into the milk chocolate moulds, dip a tiny bit f white chocolate into the dark chocolate moulds and drop the tiniest little bit of pink colour into the white chocolate moulds. Using a toothpick create a marbling effect in each mould – sprinkle with some freeze-dried raspberries and leave to set.
- Remove the cake from the bundt tin very carefully. Place on a cake stand and dust with icing sugar.
- Pop the set chocolate coins out of the muffin tin. Fill the centre of the cake with coins, dried cranberries and extra marzipan balls. Your Christmas masterpiece is complete!
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