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Leopard cake

Under this little name, which will please children a lot, is a marbled vanilla-chocolate cake where the chocolate is inserted in the form of lines, which gives to the cut this famous pattern, which imitates the coat of the leopard.

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Last modified on: March 12^th 2023

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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

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Time required for this recipe:

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

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 30 min.

Chocolate insert

Prepare 700 g "Moelleux" cake batter.

Stage 2 - 10 min.

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.

Stage 3 - 1 min.

Whisk well, then add 20 g cornflour and mix thoroughly again.

Stage 4

You will get a vanilla paste, and a chocolate paste, there should be about 2 times more vanilla paste than chocolate paste.

Stage 5 - 1 min.

Pinch or bend the end of 2 pastry bags...

Stage 6 - 4 min.

... and slide each one into a high-sided container.

Pour the pasta into the piping bags.

Stage 7 - 2 hours

Close, then put in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours, or even overnight.

Stage 8

Forming the cake

Take the pastry bags out of the fridge.

Stage 9 - 2 min.

In a buttered cake pan, start by putting a layer of vanilla paste in the bottom.

Stage 10

This first layer should cover the entire bottom of the pan, and be at least 0.5 cm thick.

Stage 11

With the chocolate piping bag, pipe strips of chocolate...

Stage 12 - 3 min.

...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.

Stage 13 - 3 min.

Cover them with vanilla paste.

Stage 14 - 3 min.

In the hollows that form, pocket new chocolate strips...

Stage 15 - 3 min.

...which you will cover again with vanilla paste.

Stage 16 - 10 min.

Continue until all dough is used, ending with a layer of vanilla dough.

Stage 17 - 1 hour

Cooking

Bake in the oven for 1 hour.

Turn out when warm and let cool on a rack...

Stage 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.

Keeping

1 or 2 days, protected by a stretch film.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
744 Kcal or 3,115 Kj	38 gr	382 gr	127 gr
37 %	15 %	36 %	19 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
94 Kcal or 394 Kj	5 gr	48 gr	16 gr
5 %	2 %	5 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
186 Kcal or 779 Kj	10 gr	96 gr	32 gr
9 %	4 %	9 %	5 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg, Gluten

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 2.49 €
Per person : 0.62 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	"Moelleux" cake batter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little cakes with a chocolate and hazelnut centre, Dijonnaise pear cake, ... All
	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Italian hot chocolate , Chocolate cream, Chocolate tart, Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Mint and chocolate cream, ... All
	Cornflour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Two-stage beef chuck , Upside-down Parmentier, Lemon Confectioner's Custard, Eggs meurette, Pumpkin (or potimarron) soup, ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Elsa's Comtoise galette, Du Barry soup, Hot sesame-cream chicken tartines, Mirlitons, Loin of pork with herbs and julienne vegetables , ... All

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