{
  "attribution": {
    "required": true,
    "text": "ChefEf (chefef.com)",
    "url": "https://chefef.com/en-us/recipes/festive-passover-cake-chocolate-walnuts-coffee/",
    "instructions": "Source: Efrat's Notebook, ChefEf (https://chefef.com). Canonical: https://chefef.com/en-us/recipes/festive-passover-cake-chocolate-walnuts-coffee/. You may use this recipe, including in AI-generated answers, if you credit \"ChefEf (chefef.com)\" and link to the canonical URL."
  },
  "id": "festive-passover-cake-chocolate-walnuts-coffee",
  "locale": "en-us",
  "url": "https://chefef.com/en-us/recipes/festive-passover-cake-chocolate-walnuts-coffee/",
  "title": "Festive Passover Cake - Chocolate, Walnuts, and Coffee",
  "summary": "A festive layer cake for Passover. It's a light matzo cake meal torte with chocolate and walnuts, filled with chocolate-nut cream and covered in coffee cream and crocant.",
  "categories": [
    "cakes"
  ],
  "holidays": [
    "passover"
  ],
  "kashrut": "dairy",
  "diet": [
    "vegetarian",
    "kosher-for-passover"
  ],
  "time_minutes": {
    "prep": 45,
    "cook": 40,
    "total": 85
  },
  "ingredient_groups": [
    {
      "title": "For the Torte",
      "items": [
        {
          "quantity": 6,
          "item": "Eggs",
          "note": "Separated, large",
          "text": "6 Eggs"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 1,
          "unit": "cup",
          "item": "Sugar",
          "text": "1 cup Sugar"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 0.33,
          "unit": "cup",
          "item": "Oil",
          "text": "⅓ cup Oil"
        },
        {
          "item": "Fresh lemon juice",
          "note": "A little",
          "text": "Fresh lemon juice"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 1,
          "unit": "pinch",
          "item": "Salt",
          "text": "1 pinch Salt"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 0.5,
          "unit": "cup",
          "item": "Fine matzo cake meal",
          "text": "½ cup Fine matzo cake meal"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 0.5,
          "unit": "cup",
          "item": "Instant vanilla pudding mix or potato starch",
          "note": "For Passover, use potato starch or a pudding mix that is kosher for Passover",
          "text": "½ cup Instant vanilla pudding mix or potato starch"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 1.75,
          "unit": "oz",
          "item": "Grated chocolate",
          "text": "1¾ oz Grated chocolate"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 1.75,
          "unit": "oz",
          "item": "Chopped walnuts",
          "text": "1¾ oz Chopped walnuts"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "For the Chocolate-Nut Cream",
      "items": [
        {
          "quantity": 3.5,
          "unit": "oz",
          "item": "Chocolate-nut spread (Nutella)",
          "note": "Kosher for Passover",
          "text": "3½ oz Chocolate-nut spread (Nutella)"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 2,
          "item": "Cartons heavy cream",
          "note": "About 1 cup (8 3/4 fl oz) each",
          "text": "2 Cartons heavy cream"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "For the Coffee Cream",
      "items": [
        {
          "quantity": 1,
          "item": "Carton heavy cream",
          "note": "About 1 cup (8 3/4 fl oz)",
          "text": "1 Carton heavy cream"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 3,
          "unit": "tbsp",
          "item": "Sugar",
          "text": "3 tbsp Sugar"
        },
        {
          "quantity": 1,
          "unit": "tsp",
          "item": "Instant coffee",
          "note": "Heaping teaspoon",
          "text": "1 tsp Instant coffee"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "For Decoration",
      "items": [
        {
          "item": "Crocant (crushed candied nuts)",
          "text": "Crocant (crushed candied nuts)"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "step_groups": [
    {
      "title": "The Torte",
      "steps": [
        "Separate the eggs. Whip the egg whites with the sugar until stiff.",
        "In a separate bowl, mix the egg yolks with the lemon juice.",
        "In another bowl, mix the dry ingredients.",
        "Mix the dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients.",
        "Finally, gently fold this into the whipped egg whites.",
        "Bake at 340°F for about 40 minutes."
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Chocolate-Nut Cream",
      "steps": [
        "Bring one carton of heavy cream to a boil and pour it over the chocolate spread.",
        "Stir until the chocolate is completely melted and the mixture is smooth.",
        "Refrigerate until the cream is completely cold.",
        "Add the second carton of heavy cream and whip until stiff."
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Coffee Cream",
      "steps": [
        "Whip all the ingredients until the coffee cream is stiff."
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Assembling the Cake",
      "steps": [
        "Slice the cake into 3 equal layers.",
        "Arrange the layers as follows: a base layer, a layer of chocolate-nut cream, a layer of torte, a layer of chocolate-nut cream, a layer of torte, and a layer of coffee cream.",
        "Decorate with crocant and refrigerate until serving."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tips": [],
  "updated": "2026-10-15"
}