Welcome to our first baking partner’s challenge. I am happy to be part of great enthusiastic baker friends who love to try and help each other to achieve everybody’s dream of perfect baking. Since our first challenge reveal date is coordinated with culinary giant Julia child’s 100th birthday celebration, I choose this recipe.
I admire Julia child, as she is a good teacher with a good sense of humor. She cooks and shows you what exactly happens in the kitchen, not like goody- goody recipes on cookery shows nowadays.
The first dish I baked is my hubby’s favorite banana bread which I learn from friend. She bakes really well. She taught me how to measure the flour, how to grease the pan, and how to check when it is done. After some trial and error, I got a hang of it and started experimenting the recipes. Still I am not a great baker, and have lots to learn.
This is from Julia‘s Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. She showed this recipe in her old black and white show of “French Chef” Unfortunately I was not able find that video and watch her making this Queen of Sheba cake.
Legend of queen of Sheba can be found in Bible and Quran. She was rich in wealth and wisdom but she was impressed with King Solomon of Israel. When she visited him, she gifted with spices, gold, jewels and riddles to check his wisdom. In the end neither was impressed with each other, she returned to her own country. If you want read more about the story check Wikipedia and also an interesting article about this cake in Bay area bites.
However, this cake is ultimately chocolate lover’s destination. Delicious, chocolaty and dark with less sweet (this is my opinion). It tastes like a Brownie. Its beauty is the slightly under done center part. It is a dense cake; don’t expect them as a soft one. As it doesn’t have any leavening agent, we can’t expect too much rise also. I made my cake in a 6 inch pan rather than Julia’s original recipe of 8 inch pan.
I used plantation rum as I have that in my pantry. Booze and chocolate goes well. I made my own almond meal from scratch. I reduced the amount of almond extract to ⅛ teaspoon; as I don’t like over powering of almond flavor. Rest of the steps, I followed just like Julia’s method. I skipped almond decoration on cake,
Next time I will add a little more sugar and make this cake. Enjoy with your favorite ice cream or whip cream. I liked as such.
So welcome all to explore Julia’s chocolate cake in hands of awesome baking partners. Several members tried to convert this cake to eggless one, so stay around and look at each links; you are going to enter the world of dark chocolate cake with different looks.
Grab your ingredients from the pantry .
Blanch almond and make almond meal.
Prepare pan, melt the chocolate with rum.
Cream butter and sugar. Blend yolks in, Beat egg whites to stiff peaks.
Mix in chocolate, almond meal, almond extract, fold in flour, and egg whites transfer to prepared pan and bake at 350C for 20 minutes or until done.
Leave the cake in pan for 10 minutes remove and cool it in rack for 2 hours and then start do icing.
once it is set, if you wish do a almond decorations, otherwise enjoy as such.
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Reine de Saba avec Glaçage au Chocolat: Chocolate Almond Cake
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Amanda says
oh yummy! i'm drooling already!
Sandy Shaw says
Nice Article! Thanks for sharing with us.
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mjskit says
You got me with "gooey in the middle"! 🙂 I'm not a big cake eater, but this cake looks delicious. It definitely does look like it would be like eating a brownie, but better.
Miriam says
How fabulous!!!
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Jayasri Ravi says
Swathi, had a wonderful time baking this cake, yours look gorgeous, I love the step-wise explanation, I am posting mine today sorry for the delay, thank you totally enjoyed with you all..
Rebecca Subbiah says
wow this looks heavenly your such a fab baker Swathi
Usha says
Serving it with ice cream is nice idea. Thanks for picking this cake for the first edition Baling Partners! I totally loved baking it.
Shabbu says
Lovely cake...
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herbivoresheaven says
That looks gorgeous, and so fudgy! Yum yum.
Cathleen says
I barely make cake, so I have not mastered making one look good. But this looks over the top fantastic!
tamilsasikitchen says
chocolateAlmond cake looks perfect....Delicious..
tamilsasikitchen says
Chocolate cake looks delicious.. Nice clicks...
Navaneetham Krishnan says
Wow Swathi, so good, so perfect, so impressive and so so looking delicious.
Lizzy Do says
Swathi, what a picture perfect, decadent and delicious cake!!! Beautifully done by all of you!
Now Serving says
A beautiful cake Swati to celebrate Julia with 🙂
Elisabeth says
Wow Swathi! What a fabulous way to kick off your cake event. A wonderful tribute to Julia, and it was for her birthday, as well!
I'm totally drooling over your gorgeous cake, love, all that chocolate, and it looks divine!
Your step-by-step instruction surely will encourage others to bake this amazing cake!
Great link up from talented bakers. Will check them out:)
Kaveri Venkatesh says
The cake looks awesome Swathi...Wish I could've joined you guys.
Kaveri Venkatesh says
The cake looks awesome Swathi...wish I could've been a part of the baking partners...will try to join you guys as soon as possible
Rekha says
awesome and wonderful cake.. looks very tempting..
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Sowmya Karthy says
Lovely roundup.. so many same recipes.. Interesting.. Am so happy and excited to be part of this Baking Partners Group...
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Guru Uru says
What a beautiful baking choice, it looks stunning and fudgy 😀
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Julia says
Wonderful.......
PT says
very delicious cake..
tadkapasta says
Lovely, you've made it so well..that slice has cut so beautifully.
simple baking says
Lovely presentation and clicks! Great write up too :D.
Vimitha Anand says
Cake looks so fudgy n gorgeous...
Non stick, Nutty and Sous chef says
The cake looks great! Bookmarked!
Shweta in the Kitchen says
Very well made with detailed instructions, feel like gorging on it so tempting
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Balvinder Ubi says
Its nice to see that you have used blanched almond flour to bake this cake. The cake really looks gorgeous!
Saraswathi Tharagaram says
Lovely pictorial..looks so soft and moist. Neat presentation too..
Spice up the Curry says
cake looks just fantastic.. beautiful.
Jill | Dulce Dough says
What a gorgeous cake!
Rosita Vargas says
Un pastel hermoso y el trozo está de maravilla una exquisitez ,buena explicación lo haré,abrazos hugs,hugs.
DivyaGCP says
Thanks for selecting an awesome recipe, Swathi. Absolutely loved baking this cake. Love your cake.. Beautiful and neat..
Reeni says
Your cake is beautiful Swathi! Yours rised up much higher than mine. I love seeing all the steps in the process. I can't even imagine how time-consuming that is for you to do. Thank-you for everything!
Julie says
Yummy delicious cake,lovely slice dear..With all your efforts,Swathi..we have successfully put up the cake...Great job & Thanx for the detailed instructions:-)
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Srimathi says
Looks very good. Good job.
Suja Manoj says
Wow awesome cake Swathi,love the texture and beautiful clicks
Glad you choose this recipe dear.
Priya says
We loved the texture of this cake, really enjoyed each and every spoon of this cake Swathi,thanks for this lovely choice.
kitchen queen says
yum yum and delicious cake.
The Mad Scientist says
Wow what a beautiful cake. I love this one too. Thanks a lot dear I enjoyed myself though i was all scared.
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Ivy says
A wonderful cake indeed. What a linky and where do I find it?
Reshmi Mahesh says
Wow...your cake looks perfect and cute...Loved the first click...Beautiful..
Beena.stephy says
Delicious mouth watering cake nice presantation
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PrathibhaSreejith says
beautiful cake Swathi, well baked n decorated 🙂
Tina (PinayInTexas) says
Yummy cake! Glad you chose this recipe, Swathi!
Sanoli Ghosh says
Excellent Chocolate Almond cake, Swathi. A real tribute to Julia Child. Happy Baking!
Cheers!
Achu says
Awesome Best clicks!!! Superb explanation and notes abt julia!!! Lovely 🙂
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj says
very delicious cake...
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Swasthi says
Wonderful presentation Swathi! Thanks a lot for creating Baking Partners! Had a good time with the partners.
Az says
Done to perfection.. Love it!
Priya R says
Perfect slice and your cake is spot on Swathi... a lovely write up too..
Sayantani says
awesome. love the fudgy texture...so yummy it looks.