Chocolate Cake
The recipe that represents all my childhood birthdays, simple and really good.
Portions 8 people
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Équipements
- Whip beater
- 20 cm diameter mold
Ingredients
- 125 g dark chocolate
- 100 g flour
- 100 g sugar
- 70 g butter
- 4 eggs yolks and whites separated
- 2 Tbsp milk
- 1/2 sachet yeast
- 1 bottle cap dark rum optional
- 1 pinch salt
For the "glaçage rocher"
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 25 g chopped hazelnuts (or almonds, or pecans...)
- 15 g grape seed oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).
- In a saucepan, melt down under low heat the chocolate with the butter and the milk.
- Once the chocolate is melted, take it out from the heat and add the yolks, one at a time, incorporating them well each time.
- In a salad bowl, mix the flour, yeast, sugar and the salt.
- Add that dry ingredient mixture to the melted chocolate, and also the rum.
- Whip the egg whites, then, softly add them to the mixture.
- Pour in the mold and bake it for 40 min.
Glazing
- Melt the chocolate down (bain-marie, microwave)
- Add the oil and the hazelnuts. Let it cool down at room temperature.
- Pour over the cake.