This extremely delicious old
Dutch recipe is the perfect way to be
sinful when you’re on a
diet, and it contains the
aphrodisiacs chocolate and raw eggs, which appears to work... (so maybe
the love of a man really goes through his stomach). Or to
impress your colleagues/friends that even you can
bake. (Ok, it’s not really baking, but they don’t know about that.)
Estimation of the time of
preparation: 8 minutes + x hours waiting (depending on your
patience. x may vary between 0 to 8 hours)
Ingredients:
- About 250 g dry
biscuits, but don’t let you’re
conscience speak, do not go for the wholegrain-type but the dull biscuits made with white flour.
- 225 g
butter.
Margarine will do just fine if you ran out of the real thing. In the old days the recipe was with
suet, but I wouldn’t recommend that, because then you can’t eat more than one slice at the time; after all its
destiny is to be eaten.
- 150 g
sugar
- 8 g
vanilla sugar or a bit of vanilla essence.
- 6 spoons pure
cacao powder (NOT the Nesquick-like instant milk chocolate powder)
- 1
egg, or 2 smaller ones.
Preparation:
Break the dry biscuits into pieces; not complete crumbs, say about 1 or 2 cm
2.
Melt the butter in a big
saucepan or
wok and add the sugar, vanilla sugar, cacao and the egg(s).
Stir till it’s
homogenous and add the dry biscuit pieces. Pour this mixture into the cake
mould (about 18 cm long) and put it in the
fridge for about a day (or night). However, if you’re
impatient, half a day in a lousy
freezer will work well too. (Lousy freezer = the three-star-like freezing compartment in a fridge that doesn’t work properly anymore, often found in
student houses).
Et voilá