Schoko-Mohn-Torte // Chocolate and Poppy seeds Torte

I finally passed my driving licence on April 13th. That Wednesday we weren't having good weather; chilly and cloudy. It was good for me because no one wanted to go biking on that kind of weather. I was picked-up by my driving instructor at the station train from where I drove the route which was the examiner probably will take later. And I was happily surprised when the examiner really took this route during my driving exam. At the end of the exam I was speechlessly happy when he overhanded me my driving licence. Hell yeah!!

At first I was accompanied by hubby everytime I drove to work and went back home. We decided to look for a smaller, older car for me as a beginner. We went to some second hand auto dealers but none was right. Last weekend we were being told that hubby's brother won't use his car this year. Hubby came to the idea to borrow it for me. On my days off last Monday and Tuesday, we went to Mom's to pick up the car. Going back home I drove ours while hubby was driving the other one. Unfortunately we missed each other at the intersection in Augsburg to take the A(utobahn) 8. I was panicked at the beginning but then I managed to calm myself down and did a U-turn, looked for a parking lot so that I could listen to a message from hubby about our meeting point. He actually rang me up but I didn't want to pick it up while I was driving. At the end, we met up right at the meeting point and I drove 170km by myself for the first time. What an experience!

Today we had a super sunny Good Friday. I had a 6.30am-shift and I drove alone to work for the first time. I'm amazed that I made it to this point in this age. Well, I wish you all a blessed Easter and happy egg hunting.

Source: Kleine Kuchen

Ingredients:
50 gr chocolate with 70% of cocoa -- finely chopped
100 gr butter
75 gr sugar
3 eggs
50 gr flour
50 gr corn starch
1 tsp baking powder
100 gr poppy seeds
A pinch of salt

For the glaze
50 gr chocolate with 70% of cocoa
20 gr powder sugar
20 gr butter
2 tbsp whipping cream

Directions:
Preheat oven to 200C. Line the spring form with 20cm diameter with a parchment paper and brush all side with butter

Cream the butter and a half of the sugar. Separate the eggs and put the yolks into butter mixture, beat well. Combine the flour, corn starch and baking powder then alternately with the chocolate and poppy seeds into the butter mixture, combine well

Beat the eggwhites, salt and the rest of the sugar until stift and combine with the poppy seeds mixture. Pour into the prepared spring form. Turn the oven heat to 180C and bake 25 to 30mins. Let it totally cool

For the glaze: Melt the chocolate with bain-au-Marie. Add the sieved sugar powder, butter and whipping cream, combine well. Pour over the torte