Name: Super-Chocolate Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; ¾ cup (90 g) flour, plus more for the pan; Pinch of salt; 2–3 tablespoons maraschino, orange, or other liqueur; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (225 g) superfine sugar, plus more for the pan; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (115 g) ground almonds; 1 cup (225 g) butter, at room temperature, plus more for the pan; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1 cup (115 g) confectioners’ sugar; 6 eggs; ½ lb (225 g) bittersweet chocolate (70 percent cacao), chopped

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

About

Chocolate cakes were comparatively new in Britain in the Edwardian period but caught on quickly. The writer of this recipe, Agnes Jekyll, was the daughter of a politician, the sister of one of Britain’s most influential gardeners, and a strong supporter of the arts. She was one of many strong-minded, talented women who forged careers for themselves in the years after the Great War, and her book, Kitche