Chocolate cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 cake, you will need:

• 1 90 g butter
• 2 90 g flour
• 3 10 g baking powder
• 4 40 g powdered cocoa
• 5 3 eggs
• 6 120 g brown sugar
• 7 10 g vanilla sugar
• 8 50 g cream
• Total weight: 560 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
6 min.	30 min.	40 min.	1 hour 20 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Melt 90 g butter and set aside. Sieve together 90 g flour, 10 g baking powder and 40 g powdered cocoa.
• 2: In a bowl, beat together 3 eggs, 120 g brown sugar and 10 g vanilla sugar with a whisk.
• 3: Pour the sugar-egg mixture into the flour, add the melted butter, 50 g cream and mix thoroughly.
• 4: Pour the mixture into a mould or tin and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  Note: As always with cakes, if you want a nice opening on top when baking, try this very effective trick.
• 5: Preheat the oven to 410°F (210°C).
  Bake for about 40 minutes. Check towards the end of the cooking time, as the cake should not be allowed to overcook and dry out.
  Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Remarks

If you are a real chocolate lover, you can add chocolate chips to the mixture.
[Translator's note: the French have adopted the English term "cake" specifically for long, loaf-shaped cakes, like the typical fruit cake. But French "cakes" come in savoury versions, too!].

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