Recipe: Chocolate Cake

Name: Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: A light chocolate cake recipe worth trying "quickly".; Chocolate cake recipe for 6 people :4 egg yolks; 4 egg whites; 150g (5.25 oz) caster sugar; 150g (5.25 oz) dark cooking chocolate, in shavings; 5cl (1.7 fl oz) milk, hot; 5cl (1.7 fl oz) double cream; 120g (4.25 oz) ground hazelnuts; 15g (0.5 oz) baking powder; 110g (3.9 oz) strong flour

By chef patrick Asfaux 5/5 (32 reviews) · 🍳 27 made it

Prep 10 min

Cook 50 min

Total 1h

Servings 6 serv.

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Ingredients for 6 servings

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A light chocolate cake recipe worth trying "quickly".

Chocolate cake recipe for 6 people :

4 egg yolks
4 egg whites
150g (5.25 oz) caster sugar
150g (5.25 oz) dark cooking chocolate, in shavings
5cl (1.7 fl oz) milk, hot
5cl (1.7 fl oz) double cream
120g (4.25 oz) ground hazelnuts
15g (0.5 oz) baking powder
110g (3.9 oz) strong flour

Step-by-step directions

1 Start your oven at 170 degrees Celsius (338'F).

2 Place your egg yolks in large bowl, whisk in the hot milk. Then incorporate the sugar and the chocolate, and then add the rest of the dry ingredients in this order: the cream, the baking powder, the ground almonds and finally the flour.

3 Whisk your egg whites until stiff and carefully fold them into the chocolate mixture.

4 Pour the mixture in a baking tin and bake for an hour.

Serve with some vanilla custard.