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La Reine de Saba – a delicious French cake

20 March 2014 · 6 Comments

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La Reine de Saba - a delicious French cake

Youhou I succeed with the migration on a self-hosted website! That’s was quite hard but definitely worth it! Please do not hesitate to let me know if something is not working or if you are looking for something that you cannot find!

Today I would like to share with you a special recipe. I could not believe it when I couldn’t find anywhere the recipe of my grand mother on the web. In one way I was so disappointed because I really wanted to bake that recipe right now. I was not quite sure about some of the quantities. And then I was like…. What time is it? 6.30 pm. Yes I still can call my grand-mother. Thanks she picked up the phone and gave me the recipe straightaway! La Reine de Saba was my favourite cake when I was a child and I still love to bake it from time to time.

So as a result, you can also have it now 🙂 and my best friend, who is pregnant really enjoyed it!

La Reine de Saba – a delicious French cake

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
  

  • 125 gr. of black chocolate roughly chopped (1 cup or 4.5 oz)
  • 2 tablespoons of water
  • 60 gr. of butter + 10 gr. for the mould 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp or 2 oz + 1 tbsp
  • 125 gr. of sugar 2/3 cup or 4.4 oz
  • 50 gr. of almond powder 1/2 cup or 1.8 oz
  • 2 teaspoons short of maizena
  • 3 eggs

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven at 180°C (356°F).
  • Melt the chocolate with the butter in a bain-marie.
  • Separate egg yolk and white.
  • Butter your mould.
  • Mix the sugar with almond powder, maizena and egg yolk. Add the melted chocolate.
  • Whisk the egg white up to firm and incorporate to the mix slowly.
  • Pour in your plate and place in your oven. Bake for 35 minutes environ.

You can serve with an English cream the taste is even better and powder some iced sugar on top of it.

Cakes, Desserts, French food, Sweet

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  1. saucygander says

    22 March 2014 at 5h50

    Congrats on moving to a self hosted website, the cake looks absolutely delicious!

    Reply
    • a French girl "cuisine" says

      22 March 2014 at 8h25

      Thank you so much. I still have some problems, the website isn’t working as I want it to do. But this is just the first step! The cake was delicious. As I said this is the cake of my childhood:)! So even if it was not good I would find it delicious :D!

      Reply
  2. Maulshri Mitra says

    23 March 2014 at 18h57

    I love your recipes! They are soooo good and they are so easy not like every french recipe which is tough! They are fresh, orignal and easy cant wait to try them! That’s why I nominated you for “The Sunshine Award”! Here’s the link: http://maulshri25blog.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/sunshine-award/

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    • a French girl cuisine says

      23 March 2014 at 19h07

      Thank you very much for the nomination! I am really glad that you like my blog. I hope you will enjoy my next recipe : éclair au chocolat!

      Reply
  3. chef mimi says

    24 March 2014 at 0h00

    This looks so beautiful!

    Reply
    • a French girl cuisine says

      24 March 2014 at 7h06

      Thank you so much chef mimi!

      Reply

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