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vey nice & easy chocolate cake


Clair

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picked up in Le Figaro cooking collection...

for a 25cm/9½" spring base round mould, buttered sides and bottom. oven to 180°

cake:

  • 250g dark chocolate
  • 8 eggs, separated

  • 180g castor sugar
  • 50g flour
  • 125g butter
icing (optional):

  • 180g dark chocolate
  • 20cl liquid cream
  • 20g butter
  • 1 tbsp icing sugar
Cake:

Break chocolate into bits and melt into a bain-marie (or microwave).

Add cut butter, remove from heat, mix gently and set aside to cool a bit.

Mix sugar to eggs yolks with mixer until white and fluffy.

Beat whites to stiff peaks.

Pour yolk mix into whites and mix gently.

Add cooled chocolate mix gently.

Add flour and mix gently.

Pour into mould and bake for 20-25mn. It should stay soft in the center, like a brownie...

Remove from oven, leave to cool, bla bla bla...

You can eat when cool or add icing:

Icing:

Finely grate chocolate.

Bring cream to the boil and remove from heat.

Add grated chocolate, keeping 1 tbsp back, and mix very gently until melted and smooth.

Add butter and mix again.

Pour over baked cake and leave to harden.

Sprinkle with icing sugar and left-over grated chocolate.
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The cake recipe is actually similar in ingredients to that of Brownies . I don't think you can make a chocolate cake with anything other than real chocolate, I find that any chocolate taste in cocoa gets lost in the mix unless it's for icing.

Thanks Clair, that will be tea time tomorrow sorted.[:D]

 

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this is a great easy quick chocolate c

This is a great quick cake for the microwave

175g marg

175g caster sugar

40g cocoa powder

150g self raising flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

3 tablespoons milk

3 eggs

Put all ingredients into food processer and run until all mixed together.You might have to scrape down sides to make sure it is all being mixed

When mixed put into crock or plastic dish.A pate dish is ideal with straight edges.Put a ring of greasproof in the bottom and throw the mix in .Level surface

Cook on medium heat for 8 or 9 minutes.If you use the dark cocoa powder this makes a really nice dark chocolate cake that can be cut in half and sandwiched together with cream.And for special occasions melted chocolate on top.You can also make a coconut version by substituting dessicated cocunut for the cocoa.This is really nice sprinkled with icing sugar and filled with jam.

 

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