Chocolate Spekkoek
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The name of my recipe site is Easily Good Eats. I like easy recipes, and this is no exception, seriously. The chocolate spekkoek may look complicated but its not. It is quite easy to prepare, requiring little effort. And you don’t even have to bake
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Spekkoek is a Dutch-Indonesian layered cake developed during colonial times in the Dutch East Indies. Spekkoek means bacon cake because it looks like bacon with the dark and light stripes. Spekkoek is also called lapis legit in Indonesia. Lapis legit
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A spekkoek does not need to have a thousand layers, a good one should have more than 12 layers. I was quite happy with my modest 9 layers. It was close enough.
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If you are Indonesian or familiar with spekkoek, you know that this is not the real thing. Spekkoek is a spiced cake, I swapped the spices for cocoa.
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Since the cake is quite rich the suggestion is to serve in thin slices. This is only a suggestion, not a rule! One final comment. There are some cakes which don't look that great but taste delicious, its the taste that counts. And there are cakes whi
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I had a slice the following day and it tasted much better. So if its possible save some for the next day, you will not be disappointed.
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