DRINKS, DESSERTS & CAKES

Great Britain

CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH ICE-CREAM

for 12 Portions

Total cooking time: approx. 15-21 minutes

Utensils: Baking tin (approx. 21 cm diameter, 10 cm high)

2 bowls with lids (1 Iitre capacity) Ingredients

175 g butter or margarine

175 g sugar

3eggs

175g flour

1 tsp

baking powder

2 tbsp

cocoa (20 g)

50 ml

milk

500 ml

vanilla ice-cream

65 g

frozen raspberries

250 g

dark chocolate coating

Variationen:

a)Cherry cake: Replace the cocoa with 1 tbsp of vanilla flavour and add 50 g of chopped cherries (glazed) to the mixture. Cover with white chocolate.

b)Coffee cake: Prepare a small coffee (2 spoonfuls of instant coffee + 2 spoonfuls of hot water and add to mixture. Reduce the quantity of milk to one teaspoon. Cover with brown chocolate.

c)Nut cake: Add 50 g of walnuts. Cover with nuts then with chocolate coating.

Germany

HOT LEMON

(for 1 Portion)

Total cooking time: approx. 1 minute

Utensils: Tea glass (150 ml capacity) Ingredients

100 ml water

juice of 1 lemon 2-3 tsp sugar

1.Beat the butter until smooth and slowly add the sugar. Gradually add the eggs and then whisk into the mixture. Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa then put into mixture. Add the milk and mix everything well.

2.Grease baking tin, pour in the mixture and cook.

8-10 min. 630 W

Check with a knife whether the dough is ready.

3.Leave the cake to cool in the baking tin for 10 minutes, then remove it. Leave it to cool down completely.

4.Cut horizontally 2 cm of the top part of the cake and leave to one side. Turn the cake over, cut vertically 1 cm at the edges and lift out the inner part with a spoon.

5.Put the ice-cream into a bowl and defrost.

approx. 1 min. 270 W

Fill the cake with ice-cream. Add the raspberries to the ice-cream. Place the base and turn the cake upside down.

6.Put the coating in the second bowl and melt.

3 - 6 min. 450 W Stir and cover the cake.

7.Freeze the cake and defrost before serving

3-4 min. 270 W

Tip (Chocolate cake with ice-cream):

This cake tastes good even without a filling.

1.Pour water and lemon juice into the glass and heat.

ca. 1 min. 900 W Stir in sugar to taste.

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Zanussi ZM266STG Chocolate Cake with ICE-CREAM, HOT Lemon, Min W Stir and cover the cake, Ca min W Stir in sugar to taste

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