recipes
The French Chocolate’ Cake
Ingredients
- 200grams dark chocolate
- 200grams butter
- 1/3 cup hot water
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 4 eggs separated
- 1 ½ cups almond meal
- 2 tablespoons coffee liqueur
- cocoa powder for dusting
Accompaniment:
- Coffee Mascarpone
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
- 2 tsp boiling water
- 250grams mascarpone
- 2 tbs icing sugar mixture
- 1 tbs coffee liqueur
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180degrees C. Grease and line the base and sides of a 23cm square cake pan.
- Combine the chocolate, butter, water and cocoa in a medium saucepan over low heat and cook stirring constantly for 4 minutes until the mixture is smooth and glossy. Transfer to a large bowl.
- To the chocolate mixture, add the egg yolks, sugar, almond meal and liqueur and stir to combine.
- Whisk the egg whites in a bowl with an electric mixture until peaks form.
- Add one-third of the fluffy egg whites to the chocolate mixture and gently fold until combined. Add remaining egg whites and fold until combined.
- Pour the mixture into the cake pan and bake for 40 minutes or until a skewer leaves the centre clean. Remove and place on a wire rack to cool.
- Combine the coffee and water in a bowl and add the mascarpone, icing sugar and liqueur and stir until well combined.
- Cut the cake into square slices and serve with the coffee mascapone.
