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Chocolate cake

Name: Chocolate cake
Prep time: 36 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 16 min
Yield: 1 cake
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 90 g butter; 90 g flour; 10 g baking powder; 40 g powdered cocoa; 3 eggs; 120 g brown sugar; 10 g vanilla sugar; 50 g cream

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

90 K 4× 4.1/5 (16 reviews)

1 hour 20 min. difficulté

Easy

2.30 €

1 cake

8 Ingredients

Last modified on: December 25^th 2015

For 1 cake, you will need:

1 90 g butter
2 90 g flour
3 10 g baking powder
4 40 g powdered cocoa
5 3 eggs
6 120 g brown sugar
7 10 g vanilla sugar
8 50 g cream
Total weight: 560 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 6 min.

Resting: 30 min.

Cooking: 40 min.

All in all: 1 hour 20 min.

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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.

Note: As always with cakes, if you want a nice opening on top when baking, try this very effective trick.

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!].

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

Source: Based on recipe by Jean-Luc Poujauran.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	40 RDI=10 %	260 RDI=20 %	120 RDI=20 %	2,060 RDI=100 %	8,630 RDI: 100 %
Per 100 g	6 RDI=3 %	50 RDI=4 %	20 RDI=3 %	370 RDI=20 %	1,540 RDI: 20 %

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk, Gluten, egg

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 2.30 €

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The 4 comments already posted on this recipe

I did the recipe without cream, taste perfect just to let you know.
Yann december 26^th 201502:54 4
Hello,

You're right, small translation error, now corrected.
Thank you for saying.
jh december 25^th 201519:52 3
Hello,

You listed cream in the ingredient list, but you don't use it.
Is it normal ?
Regards
Yann december 25^th 201516:02 2
The bread is fantastic! No to sweet and very moist.
Berenice june 18^th 201504:46 1

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