Summary

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 80 g butter, soft
• 100 g suar, brown
• 4 egg (s), separated
• 100 g nuts, round pecans (or similar)
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 100 grams flour
• 100 g chocolate flakes
• 1 lime (s) and an orange, the juice for soaking
• 3 tablespoon rum
• 1 tablespoon honey

For the cream: and the brittle

• 140 g suar
• 100 g nuts, chopped pecans
• 350 ml milk
• 1 packet custard powder, vanilla
• 100 g butter
• 3 tablespoon egg liqueur
• 2 tablespoon powdered sugar

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Instructions

1. For the cake batter:
2. Mix the butter with sugar until creamy, gradually stir in the egg yolks. Mix the flour with the nuts, chocolate and baking powder and fold in with the stiff egg whites. Now fill the dough into a 26 cm springform pan and bake in the preheated oven to 175 ° C for 35 minutes!
3. Squeeze the juice of the lime and orange, mix with honey and rum and brush the cake with it several times (soaking).
4. Now wrap the cake in aluminum foil and let it sit in the fridge overnight!
5. For the brittle:
6. Caramelize 100g sugar in a pan, remove from heat and mix in the nuts, spread the whole thing on a greased plate.
7. For the cream:
8. Cook a pudding from the milk and the remaining sugar and let it cool. Mix the butter with the powdered sugar until frothy, then stir in the pudding and egg liqueur spoon by spoon. Now brush the cake with the cream, crumble the brittle and cover the cake with it!
9. Sounds like a lot of work, but it`s worth it !!!!