Name: Chocolate Celebration Cake
Yield: Serves 16-20
Ingredients: 50 g unsalted butter; 400 g 70% cocoa solids chocolate, broken into pieces; 4 tsp instant coffee; 300 g unsalted butter, cubed, plus more for the tin; 10 eggs, separated; ½ tsp salt; 200 g 70% cocoa solids chocolate, broken into pieces; 100 ml double cream; 280 g golden caster sugar; 120 g self-raising flour, sifted

Preparation info

Serves
16-20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

This is a really dark chocolate cake, perfect for a big occasion. It’s also moist enough to serve as a dessert with crème fraîche and berries. This is a large amount of cake but, for a smaller party, use exactly half the recipe to fill a 23cm diameter, 7.5cm deep, round tin and bake for just 25-35 minutes.

Ingredients

For the Cake

300 g unsalted butter, cubed, plus more for the tin
4 tsp instant coffee
400

Method

Lightly butter a 30cm diameter, 7.5cm deep, round springform tin and line the base with baking parchment. Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan 160°C/340°F/gas mark 3½.

Set a large heatproof bowl over a saucepan of very gently simmering water, making sure the base of the

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