Mole Cake |
Recipe

Summery, fruity German classic with raspberries and bananas

Text:
Katharina Kuhlmann

Photography:
© Lena Fuchs

4 August 2022

This recipe for Mole Cake is a fruitier variation on the well-known German original, as it uses fresh raspberries and jam for the filling as well as bananas. The cake consists of a moist chocolate base made with Fine Dark Cooking Chocolate. This is layered with bananas and a dome of cream, which also contains chocolate chips. The perfect molehill look is achieved using crumbled pieces of the chocolate base. Decorated with raspberries, flowers and herbs, this mole cake – which is of medium difficulty – is a real eye-catcher on any summer coffee table.

Why VIVANI's "Dark Cooking Chocolate" matches perfectly with this Mole Cake

The Dark Cooking Chocolate with 70% cocoa content by VIVANI Organic Chocolate.

Cooking chocolate is perfect for baking. Whenever cakes, tarts and pastries need to be covered or decorated with chocolate, cooking chocolate is the better choice. The higher cocoa butter content compared to chocolate makes melted cooking chocolate particularly easy to pour and work with. But cooking chocolate is also ideal for chocolate sauces or ganaches (chocolate cream).

In this mole cake, the VIVANI Dark Cooking Chocolate used in the base and the cream filling creates an intriguing contrast to the fruit contained within the molehill. The sweet notes of the raspberries and bananas contrast with the bitter, slightly tart chocolate notes of the 70 per cent cooking chocolate. The use of it – instead of the cocoa powder usually added – gives the base a particularly rich chocolate flavour. The cooking chocolate, which is quickly and easily chopped into small pieces, also adds crunchy accents to the filling.

RECIPE: MOLE CAKE

Ingredients

For a springform pan with Ø 26 cm

For the base:

50 g

butter + a little more for the tin

80 g

VIVANI Dark Cooking Chocolate

eggs

80 g

raw cane sugar

100 ml

oat milk or whole milk

150 g

spelt flour

2 tsp

cream of tartar baking powder

1 tbsp

baking cocoa powder + a little more for the tin

1 pinch

salt

For the filling:

2 tbsp

raspberry jam

4 - 5

bananas

200 - 250 g

raspberries

500 ml

cream

50 g

VIVANI Dark Cooking Chocolate

2 tbsp

icing sugar

1 / 3 tsp

ground Bourbon vanilla

Decorations (optional):

raspberries

blossoms

herbs

making

baking time
20-22 minutes

level of difficulty
medium

N°

Butter the springform pan and dust with cocoa powder. Preheat the oven to 170 °C hot air.

For the base, melt the butter with the cooking chocolate in a pan over a low heat.

Whip the eggs and sugar with a food processor until creamy. Slowly add milk and the melted butter-chocolate mixture to the beaten eggs.

Mix flour with baking powder, cocoa powder and salt and carefully fold into the mixture with a whisk.

Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 20-22 minutes. Then leave to cool completely.

Scoop out about 1.5-2 cm of the cake surface with a spoon - leaving about a 2 cm margin. Crumble the scraped cake base and set aside.

Spread the top of the cake with raspberry jam. Peel the bananas and cut them in half lengthwise (quarter them if necessary). Spread on the base until everything is covered. Then spread the raspberries on top of the bananas.

For the filling, whip the cream until stiff. Finely chop the cooking chocolate and stir into the whipped cream with the icing sugar and vanilla.

Spread the cream over the cake and shape into a 'mound' with a spatula.

Spread the cake crumbs all around the cream mound and press down lightly to create the appearance of an earthy molehill

Cool until ready to serve. Decorate with raspberries, herbs or flowers if desired.

This is VIVANI

For 25 years, VIVANI has been producing high-quality chocolate from certified organic cocoa. The brand from Bochum (Germany) stands for transparent supply chains, long-term supplier relationships and high quality and social standards. In recognition of this commitment, VIVANI was awarded the German Sustainability Award in 2024.

VIVANI chocolates stand out visually thanks to their packaging, which features artwork by various artists. This also makes them ideal as attractive gifts.

Production takes place at the historic Weinrich chocolate factory in Herford, where every bar is crafted with a wealth of expertise and craftsmanship.