Sara Jayne Stanes

Baked Chocolate Cake

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Preparation info

  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

Chocolate: Discovering, Exploring, Enjoying

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 2005

  • About

This is the richest chocolate recipe I know, but one of the most delicious. You will need only a sliver for full effect—definitely a case of less is more.

Ingredients

  • 21 oz. dark chocolate (70 percent cocoa solids)
  • 3½ sticks but

Method

Break the chocolate into pieces and put them in a saucepan. Add the butter and melt gently over very low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted and smooth. Let cool.

Put the eggs and sugar in a large bowl and beat with a hand-held electric mixer until three times the original volume. Add one-quarter of the melted chocolate mixture to the bowl and, using a plastic spatula, mix gently