Leopard cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 700 g "Moelleux" cake batter
• 2 50 g dark chocolate
• 3 20 g cream
• 4 20 g cornflour
• Total weight: 790 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 10 min.	2 hours	1 hour	4 hours 10 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1:

  Chocolate insert

  Prepare 700 g "Moelleux" cake batter.
• 2: Take 1/3 of the dough and pour it into a separate bowl.
  Add 50 g dark chocolate that you have melted (microwave or bain-marie) and to which you have added 20 g cream.
• 3: Whisk well, then add 20 g cornflour and mix thoroughly again.
• 4: You will get a vanilla paste, and a chocolate paste, there should be about 2 times more vanilla paste than chocolate paste.
• 5: Pinch or bend the end of 2 pastry bags...
• 6: ... and slide each one into a high-sided container.
  Pour the pasta into the piping bags.
• 7: Close, then put in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, or even overnight.
• 8:

  Forming the cake

  Take the pastry bags out of the fridge.
• 9: In a buttered cake pan, start by putting a layer of vanilla paste in the bottom.
• 10: This first layer should cover the entire bottom of the pan, and be at least 0.5 cm thick.
• 11: With the chocolate piping bag, pipe strips of chocolate...
• 12: ...along the entire length of the mold.
  Note: For a nice leopard effect, the chocolate strips should be close enough but not touching each other, and not touching the edges of the mold.
• 13: Cover them with vanilla paste.
• 14: In the hollows that form, pocket new chocolate strips...
• 15: ...which you will cover again with vanilla paste.
• 16: Continue until all dough is used, ending with a layer of vanilla dough.
• 17:

  Cooking

  Bake in the oven for 1 hour.
  Turn out when warm and let cool on a rack...
• 18: ...before slicing.

Remarks

The presence of cornstarch in the chocolate insert at step 3 is very important, as it ensures that the strips will hold together in the shape of "spots" during baking.
At step 11, if the dough is a little too hard, put it in the microwave for 10 seconds.

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