Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 6 pieces, you will need:

• 1 80 g dark chocolate
• 2 80 g butter
• 3 70 g caster sugar
• 4 10 g vanilla sugar
• 5 35 g flour
• 6 2 eggs
• 7 a little fruit coulis (fruit purée)
• 8 1 handful raspberries
• 9 A few fresh mint leaves
• 10 a little icing sugar
• Total weight: 395 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 2 min.	20 min.	1 hour 25 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Prepare your moulds: you can use either pastry rings, or silicon moulds.
  In either case, cut out strips of cooking parchment which are 1 cm or 0.5 inch deeper than your moulds/rings.
• 2: Place a paper strip around the inside or each ring or mould. If they are rings (bottomless) stand them on another square of cooking parchment.
  Preheat oven at 180°C or 356°F.
• 3: Chop 80 g dark chocolate with a knife, or cut in small pieces.
• 4: Put it in a small bowl, and add 80 g butter.
  Melt in a bain-marie.
• 5: Break 2 eggs onto 70 g caster sugar and 10 g vanilla sugar.
• 6: Beat together for around 4 or 5 minutes...
• 7: ... until the mixture forms "ribbons", i.e. which while pouring it runs rather like a flat ribbon.
• 8: Mix the chocolate and the melted butter well, then sieve 35 g flour on top.
• 9: Mix well.
• 10: Pour onto this mixture 5 or 6 tablespoons of beaten egg.
• 11: Mix well.
• 12: Then pour the whole into the remaining beaten eggs.
• 13: Mix well the mixture resembles chocolate mousse.
• 14: Pour mixture into the moulds to about ¾ the depth, and place 3 raspberries on top.
• 15: Put in the oven for 8 to 9 minutes.
• 16: Important: the whole point of this recipe is that the cake should only be half cooked, if not it's just a traditional chocolate cake.
  At the end of the 9 minutes, tap the top of the cake, if it's a little bit crusty, it's done: take out of the oven, because it will continue cooking a little while afterwards.
  The cakes can be turned out as soon as you can touch them.
• 17: Serve on a plate, sprinkled with a little icing sugar, surrounded by raspberry coulis and decorated with mint leaves.

Remarks

You can replace raspberries with strawberries, or more surprisingly by blackcurrants.
If you do not have a coulis, you can quickly prepare a "mash of fruits" by mixing and crushing the fruits (raspberries, cut in small pieces, wild strawberries, currants...) summarily with a fork.

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