Thursday, March 1, 2007

Decedant Chocolate Cake...


Mind you, I have a passion for Gourmet cooking & baking.. This is one of my all time favorite chocolate cake(mini cake) recipes:

Ingredients
7oz. dark, bitter chocolate
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 stick butter, plus extra for buttering molds
1/4 c. ground almonds
4 eggs, separated
Powder sugar-for dusting
Or you may if you so choose to completely hype out on sugar do a buttercreme frosting.(I wouldn't recommend it for this recipe..The powdered sugar is more than enough).

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C and lightly butter a tray of large muffin moulds.

2. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt in a double broiler(or place a glass bowl ontop of a pan with which there is heated water in). Then add the sugar and butter to the chocolate in the double broiler and stir till well combined and you have a smooth, glossy sauce. Remove from heat and cool for 5 minutes.

3. Add the ground almonds and stir in till evenly mixed in, then beat in the egg yolks one at a time till combined.

4. Place the egg whites in a large dry bowl and beat till you have stiff peaks. Stir a large spoonful of the egg whites into the chocolate to lighten it, then gently fold in the remaining egg whites with a large rubber spatula.

5. Spoon the mixture into the muffin molds, and bake for 25-30 minutes.

6. Leave to cool for 10 minutes (don’t worry if they sink a little in the middle, this is perfectly natural) and serve at room temperature with a light dusting of icing sugar.

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