Passover Chocolate Nut Cake
Sun Sentinel
DESSERT SALLY BOWER'S PASSOVER CHOCOLATE NUT CAKE\THIS IS A MOIST, DENSE, RICH-TASTING CAKE. IT WILL RISE HIGH IN THE PAN AND FALL AS IT COOLS. THIS IS WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
8 eggs, separated
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1/2 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons passover cake meal
1 tablespoon potato starch
3 cups chopped walnuts
6 tablespoons (3 ounces) chocolate chips, ground*
Line bottom of a 9-inch tube pan with wax paper cut to fit. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a nonreactive bowl of an electric mixer, beat egg yolks and 6 tablespoons sugar with margarine until light.
Add lemon juice and rind and orange juice. Beat to combine. Add cake meal, potato starch, nuts and chocolate. In a clean bowl with clean beaters, beat egg whites until soft. Add 6 tablespoons sugar a little at a time as you beat egg whites until stiff. Fold egg whites into chocolate mixture. Pour into prepared pan and bake 1 hour and 20 minutes or until set. Let cool in pan before removing.
Makes 12 servings.
Per serving: 338 calories, 65 percent calories from fat, 12 grams protein, 22 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams total fiber, 24 grams total fat, 126 milligrams cholesterol, 63 milligrams sodium.
*The chocolate can be ground finely in a food processor fitted with the metal blade.
Recipe adapted from Melting Pot Memories (Jan Bart Publications, 1999) by Judy Bart Kancigor.
DESSERT SALLY BOWER'S PASSOVER CHOCOLATE NUT CAKE\THIS IS A MOIST, DENSE, RICH-TASTING CAKE. IT WILL RISE HIGH IN THE PAN AND FALL AS IT COOLS. THIS IS WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
8 eggs, separated
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1/2 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons passover cake meal
1 tablespoon potato starch
3 cups chopped walnuts
6 tablespoons (3 ounces) chocolate chips, ground*
Line bottom of a 9-inch tube pan with wax paper cut to fit. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a nonreactive bowl of an electric mixer, beat egg yolks and 6 tablespoons sugar with margarine until light.
Add lemon juice and rind and orange juice. Beat to combine. Add cake meal, potato starch, nuts and chocolate. In a clean bowl with clean beaters, beat egg whites until soft. Add 6 tablespoons sugar a little at a time as you beat egg whites until stiff. Fold egg whites into chocolate mixture. Pour into prepared pan and bake 1 hour and 20 minutes or until set. Let cool in pan before removing.
Makes 12 servings.
Per serving: 338 calories, 65 percent calories from fat, 12 grams protein, 22 grams carbohydrates, 2 grams total fiber, 24 grams total fat, 126 milligrams cholesterol, 63 milligrams sodium.
*The chocolate can be ground finely in a food processor fitted with the metal blade.
Recipe adapted from Melting Pot Memories (Jan Bart Publications, 1999) by Judy Bart Kancigor.
2 comments:
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Oh, and this passover nut cake is unlike anything I have ever seen. A must try for the week. Thanks!
-Francesca
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