Mouth-watering chocolate cake with walnuts and sea salt
5 from 4 votes
Prep Time 20 minutesmins
Cook Time 40 minutesmins
Total Time 1 hourhr
Course cake, Dessert
Cuisine Italy
Servings 40sevings
Calories 55kcal
Ingredients
200gricotta
2eggslarge
1eggmedium-sized
75gsugar
150gdark chocolate70 % cocoa content
50gwalnuts
30gcorn starchor rice starch
coarse sea saltfior di sale
1teaspoonbutter for the baking dish
1 teaspooncocoa powder for the baking dish
Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 180° C (upper and lower heat). Grease a baking dish (Ø approx. 20 cm) with butter and dust with cocoa. Melt the chocolate over a hot water bath. Drain the ricotta well in a sieve. Roast the walnuts in a pan without fat and chop coarsely.
Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites with half of the sugar until stiff. Beat the egg yolks with the other half of the sugar until creamy. Now mix the cooled chocolate, ricotta, walnuts and starch into this mixture. If you like it salty, season here already with a pinch of salt. Finally, carefully fold the beaten egg whites into the mixture.
Bake the cake in the pre-heated oven for 35-40 minutes. Turn off the oven, open the door and leave the cake to cool down in the oven. Dust with cocoa and a little sea salt and serve.