Brutal chocolate tafita cake

Fragrant and moist chocolate sponge biscuit with subtle notes of alcohol and chocolate caramel cream - the perfect combination for a man's cake!
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Brutal chocolate Tafita cake

Ingredients

Sponge biscuit
eggs
5pc
bitter chocolate
100g
3.50oz
0.40cup
6.70tbsp
butter
100g
3.50oz
0.40cup
6.70tbsp
sugar
175g
6.13oz
0.70cup
11.73tbsp
flour
100g
3.50oz
0.40cup
6.70tbsp
baking powder
1tsp
cocoa
2Tbs
Soaking
sugar
100g
3.50oz
0.40cup
6.70tbsp
water
100ml
3.30fl oz
0.40cup
6.70tbsp
rum / baileys
50ml
1.65fl oz
3.35tbsp
Chocolate cream
butter
180g
6.30oz
0.72cup
12tbsp
boiled condensed milk
380g
13.30oz
1.52cup
25.46tbsp
bitter chocolate
200g
7oz
0.80cup
13.40tbsp
whipping cream
170g
5.75fl oz

Method

Sponge biscuit

  • Whip the eggs with sugar until a stable foam, for at least 10 minutes. Melt the chocolate and butter. Add it to the eggs, and mix gently.
  • Separately mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa. Add the dry ingredients to the liquid part, and mix everything gently from the bottom to the top.
  • Pour the dough into a greased mold (I have a diameter of 20cm | 7.87 inch), and bake it for 50-60 minutes at 320F (160C). Check the readiness with a toothpick.
  • Remove the biscuit from the mold, and let it cool.
  • Wrap the cooled biscuit with cling film, and leave it in the fridge overnight.

Soaking

  • Bring the water to a boil, and add the sugar.
  • Boil for 1 minute. Remove from the heat.
  • Cool the liquid to room temperature. Add the Baileys / rum. Mix.

Chocolate TAFITA cream

  • Bring the cream to a boil (don't boil), and pour it over the chocolate. Stir until smooth, and let the mass cool to room temperature. Whip with a mixer.
  • Whip the softened butter and condensed milk, add the chocolate mass, and mix well.

* All the ingredients must be at room temperature.

Cake assembly

  • Cut the finished sponge biscuit horizontally into 3 cake layers.
  • Soak all the layers.
  • Assemble the cake in the mold in which it was baked, and refrigerate for 5-7 hours. Leave part of the cream for coating and decorating.
  • Remove the finished cake from the mold, coat with the remaining cream, and decorate to your taste. I added marshmallows and sprinkled with cocoa.