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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