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Tigrés (tiger-striped almond cakes) (also gluten-free)

Some people (I) can't go too long without chocolate.  After a week of Easter bread baking, here's an easy treat that is sure to live up to expectations. These tiger-striped little cakes are filled with a creamy chocolate ganache (a soft truffle like filling, bam!).  Ideally, the mold shape are savarin or mini-bundts with a cut-out center, or mini-donut molds, but since I don't have those,  surprise, surprise, I improvised with cupcake molds.  I just cut out the center to pour in the chocolate cream and all is well.  If you have the mini-savarin molds, you are blessed.  I did use chocolate sprinkles since I found them per chance the other day, and they inspired these little cakes.  You can also use mini-chocolate chips, but would get less of the tiger stripe effect.   Here's the recipe :  Batter: 180 g butter (3/4 cup) 170 g sugar (2/3 cup) 3 eggs 60 g flour or gluten-free blend (1/2 cup) 60 g cornstarch (1/2 cup) 60 g almond powder ...