Recipe: Chocolate Cake

Name: Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 90 min
Ingredients: For a chocolate cake:70% couverture chocolate - 10.5 oz (300 gr); butter 10.5 oz (300 gr); eggs 6; sugar tablespoon; van houten cocoa 1 dessert spoon; vanilla extract 1 teaspoon

By AFTouch-Cuisine 4.7/5 (7 reviews)

Prep 30 min

Cook 60 min

Total 1h30

Ingredients

For a chocolate cake:

70% couverture chocolate - 10.5 oz (300 gr)
butter 10.5 oz (300 gr)
eggs 6
sugar tablespoon
van houten cocoa 1 dessert spoon
vanilla extract 1 teaspoon

Step-by-step directions

- preheat the oven to 160º-
- butter a 24 cm diameter mold and place a base of buttered parchment paper, dust with a little sugar, remove the sugar that does not stick to the paper
- surround the mold with two layers of aluminum foil.
- melt the chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat stirring often, when the mixture is creamy, remove from heat.
- beat the eggs and sugar with the mixer for 1 minute, add the cocoa and vanilla.
- beat the mixture of chocolate and add it to the mixture of eggs/sugar.
- fill the mold with this preparation.
- bake your chocolate cake in the oven in a water bath for 45/50 minutes until the edge of the cake is well cooked and the center is very soft.
- remove from water bath and let rest outside.
- turn the cake over onto a flat plate, remove the paper, dust with cocoa, decorate with chocolate shavings.

Chef Patrick's Comment

Nice recipe, you can now avoid all these problems of coating the mold (flour, butter, or sugar) by using flexipan molds or those surrounded by Teflon, serve for example this chocolate cake with an arabica roasted English cream.