Lightning-fast chocolate cake
This chocolate cake is really quick to prepare and tastes absolutely fantastic. Use the best quality plain chocolate that you can afford for fabulous results. This is a lovely chocolate cake with a fudgy texture.
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 200g dark chocolate (70% cocoa)
- 200g butter
- 200g sugar
- 200g ground almonds
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 pinch of salt
- 4 eggs
- 2-3 tablespoons plain flour (if needed)
- Icing sugar for dusting
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:40min ›
Ready in:50min
- Break chocolate into pieces and melt together with the butter in a double boiler. Allow to cool for a short while.
- Stir the sugar, almonds, baking powder, vanilla, salt and finally the eggs into the chocolate-butter mixture. If the mixture is still too watery, you can stir in 2-3 tablespoons of flour.
- Preheat oven to 160 C / Gas 2-3.
- Line the bottom of a 25cm springform tin with baking parchment. Fill the tin with the cake mixture and bake in the preheated oven for about 40 minutes. The cake should still be a bit sticky in the centre after cooling.
- If desired, dust the cake with icing sugar before serving.
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I've made this twice already and the whole family go nuts for it. I'm trying it this weekend with mint buttercream andmint dark chocolate on top. - 29 Nov 2011
I want to bake the lightning-fast chocolate cake, but I don't have a double boiler and I wonder wether I can just put Butter and chocolate together in a usual cooking pot? Thanks for your help and I am already looking forward to make the cake this weekend! - 18 Oct 2012