Chocolate and Almond Cake

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 eggs
• 2 tsp of irish cream liqueur ( for example Baileys)

• 1.25 glass of caster sugar
• 2 glasses of grounded almonds
• 2 tbsp of flour
• almond flakes to decorate

Chocolate Mass:

• 300 g of 36% fat double cream

• 200 g of dark chocolate
• 2 egg whites
• 1 tbsp of sugar

DIRECTIONS:

1. Prepare dough: whip yolks with caster sugar and liqueur. When mass is fluffy and creamy add whipped egg whites(have to be very thick-otherwise dough can fall down). Carefully add almonds and flour. Mix everything together with a spoon.  Put into a baking tray spreaded with cutter and bake for 40min in 180C.
2. Prepare chocolate mass: melt chocolate in a pan. Whip double cream with mixer untill thick. In a separated dish whip foam from egg whites and sugar. Add 2 tbsp of cream to chocolate mass and mix. The rest of the cream mix with whipped foam and add to chocolate mass carefully stiring.
3. Put the mass on ready cake and decorate with almond flakes.