Chocolate cake with Floc de Gascogne Recipe
Flavors of Gers
Total time: 30 to 60 minutes
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Macerating time: overnight
Waiting time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Average
Ingredients
Pastry
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) butter
- 70 g (10 Tbsp.) icing sugar
- 1 vanilla bean
- 1 egg
- 170 g (6 oz., about 1 3/4 cups) flour
Filling
- 90 g (1/3 cup) single cream
- 40 g (1 1/2 oz.) Floc de Gascogne
- 100 g (3 1/2 oz.) dark chocolate 70 % cocoa butter
- 50 g (3 Tbsp.) butter
Maceration (for the ganache)
- 50 g (2 oz.) raisins
- 100 g (6 Tbsp.) white Floc de Gascogne
Garnish
- Dark chocolate swirls
- Powdered sugar
Method
The day before
- Wash the raisins; drain them.
- Macerate them in 100 g white Floc de Gascogne.
Sweet pastry
- Beat the butter, sugar, vanilla seeds and egg, then add the flour.
- Place the pastry in the fridge to cool.
- Roll out the pastry and place in a 24 cm (10") pie dish. Let rest at least one hour.
- Bake at 160°C / 325°F for 15 to 20 minutes. Cool.
Filling
- Bring the cream to the boil and pour it over the grated dark chocolate.
- Mix well, add the butter, then the Floc de Gascogne and the well-drained raisins.
- Pour the mixture into the baked pastry shell and cover with shavings of chocolate then sprinkle with icing sugar. Refrigerate.
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Recipe from Philippe URRACA, Meilleur Ouvrier de France
Pâtissier – Chocolatier – Traiteur
140 rue Nationale – 32200 GIMONT. Tel.: 05.62.67.75.50
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