Crazy Green Watercress Sponge Cake And Chocolate Sauce
From gourmetana 15 years ago
- 40 minutes to make
- Serves 8
This is a cake with an unusual color! I baked it for today's Sunday lunch dessert. It was a success! It is so tasty and nobody could guess the main ingredient. The kids loved it!
Ingredients
- Cake: shopping list
- 4 cups watercress, roughly chopped shopping list
- 4 egg yolks, 4 egg whites, 1 whole egg shopping list
- 6 tbsp oil shopping list
- 4 tbsp milk shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 1 cup flour shopping list
- 1 tsp baking powder shopping list
- 2 tbsp port wine or Madeira shopping list
- 1 pinch each: cinnamon, cloves, cardamom shopping list
- chocolate sauce: shopping list
- 4 oz 70% cocoa chocolate, broken into small pieces shopping list
- 6 tbsp Grand Marnier shopping list
- 1 tsp butter shopping list
- 3 tbsp confectioner's sugar shopping list
- 7 tbsp sour cream shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven. Prepare a baking pan of your favorite format.
- Mix the egg yolks, egg, watercress, sugar, milk and port in a food processor until the ingredients become a fine paste.
- Transfer the paste to a bowl and add the flour, spices and baking powder.
- Finally whisk the egg whites until stiff (similar to meringue) and add gently to the watercress mix.
- Bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Keep an eye on the baking process so your cake don't get burned.
- Chocolate sauce: Melt chocolate with sugar and the Grand Marnier over low heat (8 minutes). Take it off the heat and add butter and cream. It is ready to serve.
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Wow, this looks and sounds very good. Great post and a high 5.
chefmeow
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Very different,sounds very good! Got my 5!
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Wow,wow,wow,wow,wow!!! Other than that, what can I say? 5 5 5 5 5
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