I found this excellent and easy chocolate recipe cake on the internet.
Squidgy chocolate cake:
Ingredients:
- 150 g butter, plus more for greasing
- 200 g dark chocolate, drops, minimum 70% cocoa solids
- 1 tbsp brandy
- 1 tbsp strong black coffee, (made with good quality instant is fine)
- 150 g caster sugar
- 100 g ground almonds
- 5 eggs, separated
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4.
2. Grease a deep 20cm round cake tin with butter and sprinkle lightly with flour or, preferably, use a non-stick liner.
3. Put the butter, chocolate drops, brandy, coffee, sugar and into a heatproof bowl and melt together, either in a microwave oven or in a bowl over a pan of hot (not boiling) water. Stir well until it becomes smooth. Allow to cool a little, then stir in the ground almonds.
4. Stir the egg yolks into the chocolate mixture.
5. In a large bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff, then stir gently into the chocolate.
6. Turn the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 35-45 minutes, depending on how squidgy you like it.
7. Let it cool a little, then remove from the tin and cool completely on a rack.
2. Grease a deep 20cm round cake tin with butter and sprinkle lightly with flour or, preferably, use a non-stick liner.
3. Put the butter, chocolate drops, brandy, coffee, sugar and into a heatproof bowl and melt together, either in a microwave oven or in a bowl over a pan of hot (not boiling) water. Stir well until it becomes smooth. Allow to cool a little, then stir in the ground almonds.
4. Stir the egg yolks into the chocolate mixture.
5. In a large bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff, then stir gently into the chocolate.
6. Turn the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 35-45 minutes, depending on how squidgy you like it.
7. Let it cool a little, then remove from the tin and cool completely on a rack.
