Mrs Zegers Chocolate Passover Cake Recipes

PASSOVER CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F or 175°C.
• Whisk together sugar, potato starch, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
• Add eggs, oil, and black coffee or water. Mix until well combined. It will seem very liquidy but it's fine.
• Use a rubber spatula to pour batter into a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when poked through the middle.
• Remove and let cool completely before cutting.

CHOCOLATE TORTE WITH PASSOVER FUDGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking pan with parchment, and spread hazelnuts on top. Bake until fragrant and toasted, about 10 minutes. Place nuts in a clean kitchen towel, and rub to remove loose skins. Place 1/3 cup nuts in bowl of food processor, and pulse until finely ground; reserve. Roughly chop remaining 1 cup nuts, and set aside.
• Grease a 9-inch round cake pan with margarine; dust with cocoa powder. Whisk together remaining 3/4 cup cocoa powder, ground hazelnuts, and matzo meal; set aside.
• In a bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat yolks and brown sugar on medium-high speed until mixture holds a ribbonlike trail for 3 seconds when you raise the whisk, about 45 seconds. Fold in 1 cup nut puree from fudge glaze recipe. Transfer to a large bowl; wash and dry mixer bowl and attachment. Place egg whites and salt in mixer bowl; beat with whisk attachment on medium-high speed until soft peaks form, about 1 minute. With mixer running, slowly add superfine sugar; beat until stiff and glossy. Fold egg whites and ground-hazelnut mixture into egg-yolk mixture. Fold in melted margarine. Transfer batter to prepared pan; smooth top with an offset spatula.
• Transfer to oven; bake until a wooden skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Invert pan, and remove cake. Using a serrated knife, slice cake into two layers. Place a 9-inch cake round on a wire rack set on a baking sheet. Place bottom layer of cake on round; spread 1/2 cup fudge glaze on top. Place second layer on bottom layer. Pour remaining glaze over cake, using the offset spatula to cover sides. Refrigerate 30 minutes.
• When ready to serve, press chopped hazelnuts onto sides.

CHOCOLATE PASSOVER SPONGE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Spray a 10-inch tube pan with cooking spray.
• Sift matzo cake meal with potato starch into a bowl; set aside.
• Place egg yolks into a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until light, about 3 minutes.
• Slowly beat 1 cup sugar into the egg yolks; continue beating until mixture is thick and pale, about 5 more minutes. Beat cocoa powder into the egg yolk mixture until thoroughly combined.
• Beat egg whites with an electric mixer fitted with clean beaters in a separate bowl until foamy. Gradually beat in 1/2 cup sugar and continue to beat until egg whites hold stiff peaks.
• Lightly stir matzo cake meal mixture and coffee into egg yolk-cocoa mixture.
• Gently fold 1/3 of the egg whites into the batter, retaining as much volume as possible. Fold in remaining egg whites, mixing just until no white streaks remain. Gently mix in chopped walnuts.
• Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until top of cake shows small cracks and springs back when lightly pressed, about 45 minutes.
• Run a knife around the sides of cake to loosen from the pan. Invert cake onto a wire rack to cool.