Dromtarta - Swedish Chocolate Dream Cake
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
-
Cake
- 1⁄2 cup flour
- 1⁄3 cup cocoa (preferably Dutch type)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 eggs
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- confectioners' sugar
-
Dream Filling
- 3⁄4 cup unsalted butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 1⁄4 cup cocoa (preferably Dutch type)
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3 tablespoons rum or 3 tablespoons cognac
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
-
Cake:
- Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
- Combine eggs, water and vanilla and beat until thick and lemon-colored. Add granulated sugar gradually (1 tbsp at a time) and beat thoroughly after each addition.
- Slowly sift flour mixture into egg mixture and fold in carefully, but thoroughly.
- Grease a 15x10 in jelly-roll pan and line w/waxed paper. Spread batter evenly in pan and bake 30 minutes or till cake tests done. Touch cake lightly w/fingertip. If the dough springs back quickly, the cake is done.
- Sprinkle a kitchen towel heavily with confectioner's sugar . Turn cake onto kitchen towel and peel off waxed paper. Trim off any crisp edges. Roll warm cake lengthwise in towel into a roll. Cool on rack, seam side down.
- Filling - Cream butter with egg yolk and cocoa. Beat in sugar gradually, alternating w/rum. Keep at room temp for spreading.
- Cake Assembly - Unroll cake and spread with filling. Reroll and refrigerate till serving time.
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
<p>Hello from suburban Fort Worth, Texas! <br /> <br /><br /> <br />______________________________________________ <br /> <br /> <br />*My rating system defined* <br /> <br />Very few recipes really knock my socks off - I love to cook but am not a gourmet. <br />This said: <br /> <br />***** - met all my expectations in taste & appearance; directions were clear & easy to follow. <br /> <br />**** - fell slightly short of my expectations in taste or appearance or directions were faulty or not completely clear. <br /> <br />*** - mediocre taste and/or appearance; most likely a recipe that I would not use again without much modification. <br /> <br />** - taste and/or appearance was not to my liking; a recipe that I would not attempt to modify or use again. <br /> <br />* - taste was absolutely not to my liking (I can't imagine ever using this rating as I can generally tell by the ingredients if I will enjoy the finished product or not) <br /> <br /> <br /><img src=http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e347/Saturn6666/chefbanner1.jpg alt= /> <br /> <br /> <br /><img src=http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j44/scmurray51/hagshat.jpg alt= /> <br /> <br /><br /> </p>