Nanou's chocolate cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 cake, you will need:

• 1 200 g dark chocolate
• 2 200 g butter
• 3 200 g icing sugar
• 4 4 eggs
• 5 50 g caster sugar
• 6 100 g ground almonds
• 7 75 g flour
• 8 A few Flakeds almonds (optional)
• Total weight: 1,025 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
50 min.	55 min.	1 hour 45 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Break 200 g dark chocolate into small pieces, and put them in a pan.
• 2: Add 200 g butter cut in pieces, cover and put on very gentle heat, or in a bain-marie, to dissolve.
• 3: When butter and chocolate are melted, mix with a whisk to obtain an homogeneous mixture.
• 4: Separate whites from yolks of 4 eggs (see how to on this video).
  Then add yolks to butter-chocolate mixture...
• 5: ... and beat well to incorporate.
• 6: Sieve together 200 g icing sugar, 100 g ground almonds and 75 g flour, to mix.
• 7: Add these dry ingredients to the butter-chocolate-egg yolks mixture, and mix well.
• 8: You will obtain a rather stiff mixture, which is normal.
• 9: Preheat oven to 180°C ou 356°F.
  Beat white eggs, and when stiff fold in 50 g caster sugar.
• 10: Take a few tablespoons of egg white, and put them onto mixture.
• 11: Incorporate these tablespoons of egg white into the mixt, to lighten it a little.
• 12: Pour this "lightened" mixture into remaining egg whites.
• 13: And start to fold in gently with a spatula or a maryse.
• 14: Incline the bowl to facilitate your work, you should end up with a mixture...
• 15: ... that's smooth and very chocolaty.
• 16: If you like, scatter some flaked almonds in the bottom of cake mould.
• 17: Then pour mixture in.
• 18: Put in the oven for 40 to 50 minutes. Check cooking after 30 minutes.
• 19: Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Remarks

This cake should be very moist, so it's important not to overcook it. Watch carefully towards end of cooking time.

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