A chocolate and cinnamon Christmas cake with creative decoration is a culinary eye-catcher at every celebration
Created: 07.12.2022, 18:30
By: Janine Napirca
Tired of baking cookies and looking for a new challenge in Christmas baking?
Then bake the eye-catching chocolate Christmas cake with cinnamon and cardamom.
"Where's the recipe for the cookies we love?
Who hid the recipe?” Don't worry, the Christmas cookies on the chocolate and cinnamon Christmas cake are only used as decoration.
So if you're really fed up with cookies - and your stomach - then dare to try an eye-catching Christmas cake.
With the advanced baking recipe, you are sure to be the favorite family member at Christmas time.
Thanks to creative decoration, a chocolate and cinnamon Christmas cake is a feast for the eyes at every Christmas party
Sample image - not the actual recipe image
You need the following ingredients for the chocolate Christmas cake
For the dough:
200ml milk
120 g sugar
Orange zest from 1 orange
250 grams of honey
100 g cane molasses
1 tsp cardamom
1 tsp cloves
2 tsp cinnamon
150 grams of butter
350 grams of flour
1 packet of baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
3 eggs
For the filling:
100 grams of white chocolate
200 grams of cream cheese
100 grams of mascarpone
35 g powdered sugar
1 pinch of cinnamon
1 pinch cardamom
For the glaze:
100 ml cream
100 ml chocolate (dark or whole milk)
15 ml glucose syrup
5 ml coconut fat
You will also need butter or margarine and flour for greasing the baking pan and a size-adjustable cake ring.
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Put the milk, sugar, orange zest, honey and cane molasses in a saucepan and bring the ingredients to a boil.
The contents of the pot should then cool for about half an hour before pouring into a bowl.
Add the Christmas spices and butter and mix with a mixer.
The oven is preheated to 160 degrees Celsius top/bottom heat (convection 140 degrees Celsius) and the baking tin greased.
Place the flour, baking powder, and baking soda in the bowl, along with the eggs.
Stir well again before pouring the Christmas cake batter into the baking pan.
Bake the cake base for about an hour, let it cool down and then cut it in half lengthwise.
Melt the white chocolate in the microwave or in a water bath and then let it cool.
Then, in a bowl, mix the cream cheese with the mascarpone and powdered sugar and finally add the melted white chocolate.
Cinnamon and cardamom follow, then stir again.
Place the first layer of cake on a suitable cake stand and cover it with an adjustable cake ring.
Spread about half of the filling onto the cake base.
This is followed by the second cake base, which you press down lightly on the first and spread the remaining filling on top.
The third and last layer of cake goes at the very top, which you also press down on slightly before you put the Christmas cake in the fridge for at least two hours.
For the icing, bring the cream to the boil in a saucepan and add the chocolate piece by piece.
With constant stirring, the chocolate is melted and evenly mixed with the cream, the glucose syrup and the coconut fat - which you also add.
Allow the Christmas cake chocolate frosting to cool slightly before pouring it over the cake from the center.
Depending on your taste, you can decorate the home-made eye-catching Christmas cake with Christmas elements such as a gingerbread man, cinnamon sticks or Christmas sprinkles.
Alternatively, you can decorate the Christmas cake with homemade cookies from the Christmas bakery.
How about, for example, juicy Hilda rolls, 10-minute Bethmännchen, heavenly buttery clouds or tender snowballs?
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