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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