Tomorrow my second cousin with his wife and daughter are coming for a visit. Our two families get along very well, so I’m looking forward to seeing them again. For the occasion my mom made me bake – a very messy activity when done by me *g* – and since I translated the recipe for a friend anyway, I thought I’d share:

My Grandmother’s Chocolate Cake:

200g butter
250g sugar (we actually take less)
8 eggs – separate white and yolk, whip the white
240g chocolate (mix of cooking and milk chocolate) – grind it
150g ground almonds
100g zwieback (rusk?) – grind it

Whisk the butter until it’s foamy, add egg yolk and sugar and stir for five minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients, egg snow last by moving it gently under the rest. Pour it into the buttered baking-tin.

Pre-heat oven 10 minutes to 200°C.
Bake for 45 minutes on 180°C, then test it.

When the cake’s cooled off, add chocolate glazing.

I do hope the cooking talk translates… especially seeing that I’m definitely not an expert, even in German. *g*