Chocolate cake in a jar

It is snowing outside and I'm in a mood for chocolate today. Rich and dark chocolate cake… yummie. I have a really good and easy recipe which I've used today and would like to share with you.

You need:

3 jars ( preserving jars) 1/4 l volume each

100 g dark chocolate ( 70 % chocolate)

3 tsp of cream

100 g butter

3 eggs

100 g sugar

1 sachet of vanilla sugar ( or 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence)

a pinch of salt
200 g ground hazelnuts

1 tsp of butter

2 tsp of cacao powder


Preheat the oven to 160 °C or 320 °F. Butter the jars and add the cacao powder so that the entire jar is buttered and has a cacao layer.

Separate the eggs and beat the eggwhites until stiff. Heat the cream in a pot at low heat, break the chocolate into pieces and add to the cream together with the butter which you cut into small pieces before adding it. Melt everything in the pot until while whisking. Whisk it until everything is of a single consistency. Let cool down a little bit.

In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolk the sugar, vanilla sugar and salt until it’s all mixed up evenly. Add the ground hazelnuts and fold in the stiff eggwhites. Divide the batter evenly among the 3 jars, filling each about 1/3 full.

Put the jars on a baking sheet and slide into the oven. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.

Serve warm with a little scoop of vanilla ice cream. :)