Chocolate Pi - Cake
In this instrucable we are making a pi Cake.
Supplies
250g - chocolate
250g - butter
180g - sugar
8g - vanilla sugar
6 - eggs
100g - flour
250g - grated nuts
Baking time: 180°C (356°F) for 25min
Decoration:
fondant in colour as you want
some apricot jam
Eatable marking pen in a colour you like
Heating the Chocolate and Butter
• Preheat the oven 180°C (356°F).
• Melt the chocolate and the butter in little peaces in a water bath (Wasserbad in german)
• let the mixture cool down a bit.
Mixing Eggs and Sugar
• open the 6 eggs and pay attention that there is no eggshell in the cup
• beat the eggs and the sugar until it's fluffy
Mixing Chocolate and Eggs
• put the chocolate and butter mix into the egg-sugar cream
• mix till it's mixed well. (all has the same colour, but not too long)
Add Flour and Nuts
• put the flour, nuts and the vanilian sugar together in one cup and mix it well.
• stir the mix carefully under the already existing dough
Pour the Dough in the Baking Mould
• prepare the baking mould with bakery paper all over or cover it with butter.
• pour the dough in the already prepared baking mould.
• bake it for approx. 25min at 180°C (356°F)
Decorating the Cake
• roll the fondant at the needed size
• put some heated jam on the top of the cake
• cover the cake with the fondant und cut the edges clean.
• with an other colour of fondant cut the pi and write the numbers around it.
Put the Pi on Top of the Cake
• put the pi on top of the cake and enjoy your masterpiece