Recipe: Perfect Almond-Peanut Chocolate cake

Almond-Peanut Chocolate cake.

You can have Almond-Peanut Chocolate cake using 15 ingredients and 27 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Almond-Peanut Chocolate cake

1. It's of cake For the -.
2. It's 1/2 cup of Almonds . ....
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of Peanuts [ Without the skin preferably . ....
4. It's 1/2 cup of Dark Chocolate . ....
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of Sugar . + 2 tbsps ....
6. You need 1/4 cup of All Purpose Flour . .....
7. You need 1/2 tsp of Baking powder . ....
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of Butter [Room temperature]....
9. It's 4 of Eggs ... [separated].
10. Prepare 3/4 cup of Peanuts ….
11. Prepare 1 cup of Sugar ….
12. It's 1/4 cup of Water ….
13. You need 1/2 cup of Cream ….
14. It's 1/2 tbsp of Honey ….
15. You need 1 tbsp of Butter ….

Almond-Peanut Chocolate cake step by step

1. Pre heat oven to 175-180C..
2. Toast the nuts in a pan on low heat until they leave some oil. Dont let them burn..
3. Churn them in a mixer with 2 tbsp sugar and make a fine powder out of it..
4. Take a fork and work the lumps out, if any..
5. In this now sift the flour and baking powder. Keep aside..
6. Melt chocolate either on a double burner or in the microwave [Power 100 for a min first then 30 more seconds if needed..
7. Cream butter and 4 tbsp sugar until fluffy..
8. Add yolk one at a time and mix well..
9. Add the chocolate to the butter mix..
10. Add flour to it too..
11. In a separate dry bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks from..
12. Add 2 tbsp sugar and beat until stiff peaks are formed. Dont over beat it..
13. Fold the whites gently in the cake mixture. Mix a 1/3rd of mixture at a time..
14. Pour it in a lined tin and bake for 35-40 min until the skewer comes out clean..
15. Let it cool in the pan for 15 min. Take it out on a cooling rack and let it cool completely..
16. For the caramel sauce:.
17. In a heavy base pan, add the water and sugar..
18. Let the sugar turn nice and brown on a low-medium flame..
19. Add cream, honey and butter. It shall splutter a lot. Try not to get sugar burns..
20. Using a spoon, try to remove lumps..
21. Cook it for a few min and then add peanuts..
22. Turn off the gas..
23. Assembling the cake-.
24. Using a fork, make holes on the cake..
25. Pour the caramel on the cake..
26. Let it sit for a couple of minutes..
27. Serve with love.