Dark-Chocolate & Raisin Cake with Tokay Mascarpone

 

Ingredients:

75 grams raisins

30ml Tokay*

350 grams dark couverture chocolate (Haigh's) chopped

150 grams unsalted butter chopped

110 grams caster sugar

1/4 cup strong espresso coffee

50 grams SR flour

35 grams Dutch cocoa

4 eggs, seperated

75 grams caster sugar (extra)

50ml Tokay* (extra)

350 grams mascarpone

1 tablespoon icing sugar

Method:

Line the base and sides of a greased 23cm springform pan with baking paper.

Soak the raisins in tokay* for 1 hour. Melt the chocolate, butter, sugar and coffee in the top of a double saucepan or in a heat proof bowl over simmering water until smooth and glossy. Remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes.

Stir combined sifted flour and cocoa into the chocolate mixture and mix until well combined. Add egg yolks, raisins and tokay and mix well.

Next, whisk the egg whites unitl soft peaks form. Add extra sugar and continue whisking until stiff peaks form. Fold egg-white mixture into chocolate mixture, a third at a time. Spoon mixture into prepared pan and bake at 180C for about 60 minutes or until the edge is cooked when tested with a skewer. The centre will still be a little moist. Let the cake cool completely in the pan.

Whisk the extra tokay, mascarpone and icing sugar until well combined and serve with the cake.

This cake will keep in an airtight container for 3 days and is best not stored in the fridge.

NOTE: This cake cuts much easier if baked the day before you require it.

* Tokay

also spelled TOKAJI, famous, usually sweet white wine of Hungary, made from the Hungarian Furmint grape. The wine derives its name from the Tokaj district of northeastern Hungary. Though some Tokay is dry, the finest version, Tokaji Aszu, is made from late-ripened grapes affected by Botrytis cinerea, a mold that concentrates grape sugars and flavours into honeylike sweetness.

The sweetness of Tokay is traditionally measured by the number of puttonyos, or baskets, of sweet grapes used. A three puttonyos wine is lightly sweet; five puttonyos denotes the highest degree of sweetness. The legendary Tokay Eszencia, a concentrated sweet essence of low alcohol famed for its miraculous restorative properties, is virtually unobtainable today.

The name tokay is also applied generically to certain sweet wines of indifferent quality that bear no resemblance to Hungarian Tokay.

 

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