Shaun Hill’s Warm Chocolate Cake with Compote

Shaun Hill owns and cooks at the Merchant House in Ludlow is one of the best, most imaginative cooks in the country... and one of the funniest with a wry sense of intellectual humour - the sort which is prerequisite to writing a thesis on Greek tragedy - another of his fortes! Shaun says of this recipe “Cakes made with little or no flour suffer if overcooked. Underdone, this will sag a touch in the middle in the same way as many otherwise splendid people. It will still be soft and chocol