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Chocolate cake

A traditional-style recipe for a moist chocolate cake with plenty of chocolate flavour.

37,959 44.6/5 for 13 ratings

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Last modified on: December 25^th 2015

For 1 cake, you will need:

0 90 g butter
1 90 g flour
2 10 g baking powder
3 40 g powdered cocoa
4 3 eggs
5 120 g brown sugar
6 10 g Vanilla sugar
7 50 g cream
Total weight: 560 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
6 min.	30 min.	40 min.	1 hour 16 min.

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Keeping:

1 or 2 days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 min.

Melt 90 g butter and set aside. Sieve together 90 g flour, 10 g baking powder and 40 g powdered cocoa.

Stage 2 - 2 min.

In a bowl, beat together 3 eggs, 120 g brown sugar and 10 g Vanilla sugar with a whisk.

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Pour the sugar-egg mixture into the flour, add the melted butter, 50 g cream and mix thoroughly.

Stage 4 - 30 min.

Pour the mixture into a mould or tin and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Stage 5 - 40 min.

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!].

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,030 Kcal or 8,499 Kj	37 gr	218 gr	116 gr
101 %	14 %	21 %	18 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
362 Kcal or 1,516 Kj	7 gr	39 gr	21 gr
18 %	3 %	4 %	3 %

Per cake
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,030 Kcal or 8,499 Kj	37 gr	218 gr	116 gr
101 %	14 %	21 %	18 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 2.27 €

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Source

Based on recipe by Jean-Luc Poujauran.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Brown sugar: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Gingerbread, Sweet pancake rolls from Brittany, Hazelnut and orange cake, Chaud-froid of grapefruit, pineapple and lime custard , Caribbean upside-down cake, ... All
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	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chicken and mushroom pie, Mirlitons, Potato gratin, "Day After Pork Belly" Soup, Salmon and spinach quiche, ... All

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Your 4 comments or questions on this recipe

I did the recipe without cream, taste perfect just to let you know.
Posted by Yann december 26^th 2015 at 02:54 (n° 4)
Hello,

You're right, small translation error, now corrected.
Thank you for saying.
Posted by jh december 25^th 2015 at 19:52 (n° 3)
Hello,

You listed cream in the ingredient list, but you don't use it.
Is it normal ?
Regards
Posted by Yann december 25^th 2015 at 16:02 (n° 2)
The bread is fantastic! No to sweet and very moist.
Posted by Berenice june 18^th 2015 at 04:46 (n° 1)

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