Chocolate roulade with hazelnuts and blueberries

Preparation time:
20 mins plus overnight cooling time
Cooking time:
15 mins
Serves:
6
Rating:
Made without a trace of flour, this elegant stunner is a marvellously moist cake. Roll on dessert!
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Ingredients

5 eggs, separated
140g caster sugar
200g dark cooking chocolate, chopped
75ml water
1 tsp strong ready-made coffee
600ml cream, whipped
250g blueberries
150g roasted hazelnuts, roughly chopped
Lavender flowers, to serve (optional)
Grated chocolate, to serve
Notes

Use lavender flowers straight from the garden! Just ensure they haven’t been sprayed, and wash before using.

Method

1| Preheat oven to 200°C. Line a 26 x 38cm slice tin with baking paper, with 2cm overhanging on long sides.

2| Put egg yolks and sugar in a large bowl and beat, using an electric mixer, until pale and mousse-like. Put chocolate, water and coffee in a large heavy based frying pan over a low heat. Cook until chocolate is melted. Stir in yolk mixture and set aside.

3| Put eggwhites in a clean bowl and whisk, using an electric mixer, until stiff but not dry. Using a metal spoon, fold a little of the eggwhite into chocolate mixture until thoroughly combined (this will loosen the mixture). Gently fold in remaining eggwhite and spread mixture evenly into prepared tin.

4| Bake for 12 minutes or until slightly browned and firm to touch.

5| Lift out cake using paper and put on a wire rack. Cover immediately with a damp, clean tea towel (this prevents cake from cracking) and leave to cool for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.

6| Evenly spread ½ the cream over 1 side of cake and top with ¾ of the blueberries and ½ the hazelnuts.

7| Using paper as a guide, roll up cake, removing paper as you go. Transfer to a serving plate. Decorate with remaining whipped cream, blueberries, and hazelnuts. Dust with lavender flowers, if you like, and grated chocolate to serve.

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