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A RICH CHOCOLATE CAKE
This is a rich cake which can be eaten with a cuppa or as a dessert with some creme fraiche and/or raspberries. It's my mum's recipe, hence the ozs!
Recipe posted by snowy
Ingredients
- 6oz /175g dark chocolate
- 4oz/110g butter - softened
- 4oz/110g caster sugar
- 7 oz/110g grounds almonds
- 4 eggs separated topping
- 2 tbsp apricot jam
- 3oz/50g dark chocolate
- 2oz/30g butter
Method
Serves: -
- Preheat the oven to gas 4/350F/180C.
- Grease and line an 8 " [20cm] spring form cake tin.
- Melt the chocolate, and cream the butter and sugar together till light and fluffy.
- Stir in the ground almonds, egg yolks and the melted chocolate.
- Whisk the egg whites till stiff and fold them into the mixture carefully.
- Pour into the tin and bake for 45-50 mins till the cake is firm to touch.
- As this is a rich cake, the top might sink and crack a bit - this is OK!.
- Leave the cake in the tin for a few minutes then put it onto a wire rack.
- When cake is cool, spread it with the apricot jam.
- Melt the chocolate and the butter together and spread over the top of the cake.
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