vey nice & easy chocolate cake

[Clair]

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.

[cooperlola]

My waistline is suffering enough from living over here, Clair, without you posting stuff like this![:P]

[Clair]

There's hardly any fattening stuff in it, it's light and fluffy and you can skip the icing without losing any of the delicious taste! Honest! [:D]

[Beryl]

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]

 

[Clair]

Well I've just made it again, and it was much easier 2nd time round: 15mn to prepare everything and it's in the oven!

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[Patf]

Clair - I made this cake yesterday and it is really yummy! I think I should have baked it a bit longer though because it 's quite sloppy in the centre. The rest has a dense sponge texture. Pat.

[Clair]

You're right re cooking times, I adjusted to 30mn.

You'e right re taste too [:D] Yummy is the word!! [:-))]

[Beryl]

It was good and didn't stay around long .[:)]  

I have been instructed to try and make it in my mini bar mould for individual smaller cakes too.

[Clair]

I was thinking about that too!

I recently got a 'financier' baking tray (from Lidl, so much cheaper than this one!) so that'll be the one I'll try it in.

I suppose I'll have to reduce the baking time and start checking after 15mn without opening the oven door of course [:)]

[Blossom]

Thanks for the recipe, Clair. I made the cake yesterday: lovely and moist; it disappeared in minutes!

[Clair]

Thanks Blossom [:)]

I have made it a few times and it still tastes as nice as the first time![:D]

[cowoman]

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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