Mix butter, icing sugar and 1 pinch of salt with the whisk of the hand mixer for 2-3 minutes until creamy. Stir in the eggs one after the other. Coarsely chop the puffed rice
Mix flour, puffed rice, almonds and baking powder. Alternately stir the flour mix and milk into the fat-sugar mass. Pour the dough into a greased, flour-spread ring cake mould (approx. 2 litres capacity)
Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 45 minutes, remove from oven. Leave the cake to cool in the tin for approx. 15 minutes, turn out onto a cake rack and let it cool down for approx. 2 hours
Coarsely chop the chocolate coating, melt over a warm water bath, let it cool down for about 10 minutes. Sprinkle the chocolate coating over the cake with a teaspoon, allow to dry for approx. 30 minutes
waiting time approx. 2 3/4 hours