Chocolate Cake Supreme

Name: Chocolate Cake Supreme
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients: 250 g (8 oz) plain chocolate, chopped; 4 tablespoons coffee, rum or Cognac; 250 g (8 oz) unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 7 eggs, separated; 75 g (3 oz) ground almonds; Chocolate Ganache; 125 g (4 oz) self-raising sponge flour; 2 pinches of salt; 175 g (6 oz) vanilla caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 35

Appears in

The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1987

About

This is a dream of a cake, dark and rich without being in the least heavy. It is perfectly matched by a luscious creamy chocolate frosting.

Ingredients

For the cake

250 g (8 oz) plain chocolate, chopped
250 g (8

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Oven temperature Gas Mark 3/160°C/325°F

Preheat the oven. Grease and line two 21 cm (8½-inch