One of the most traditional recipes of chocolate cake in Ireland This is what I'm going to pass on to you next. Chocolate arrived in Ireland in the last decades of the XNUMXth century and became very popular very quickly. The "chocolate shops" spread like wildfire, first in the cities and then in the towns. Of course, at the beginning, chocolate was something for the rich, but when the European market grew, prices began to fall. Finally the Irish got to consume more chocolate per capita that the Swiss themselves and today are still at the forefront of their consumption.
This recipe dates from the early XNUMXth century:
- 225 grams of butter
- 450 grams of sugars
- 4 eggs
- 90 grams of grated dark chocolate
- 50 grams of peeled almonds
- 150 grams of potatoes boiled with skin, cold, peeled and mashed
- 300 grams of flour 0000
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1 / 2 teaspoon salt
- 150 ml of milk
First you take a cake mold and butter it, mix a little flour with cocoa and flour it. You heat the oven to 275ºC. You process the chocolate a bit or you crush it in a mortar, add the flour, the cinnamon, the baking powder and the salt. You crush the butter with the sugar until it is well integrated. You separate the eggs and first add the yolks, one by one, until a cream is generated. You add the chocolate and the almonds and the mashed potatoes. you mix everything. Then you add the flour interspersing with the milk. To the last you add the whites beaten to snow carefully. You take it to the mold and bake the cake for 1 hour or so.