Mum’s Chocolate Cake

Name: Mum’s Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Ingredients: 2 tsp baking powder; 350 g/12 oz/heaped 2¾ cups plain white flour; 5 tbsp milk; ½ tsp salt; whipped cream, to serve; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 115 g/4 oz unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing; 175 g/6 oz/heaped ¾ cup granulated or caster sugar; 115 g/4 oz plain dark chocolate, broken into small pieces; 3 eggs, separated; 175 g/6 oz/heaped ¾ cup granulated or caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 15

Appears in

Fiori Di Zucca

By Valentina Harris

Published 2013

About

This was the classic cake that my mum would always make in anticipation of my brothers’ return from boarding school during the holidays. As I recall, I seemed to make it more often than she did as I got older, although it never quite came out as well as when she made it for her sons.

Ingredients

115 g/4 oz unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
115 g/4

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4 and grease a 25cm/10in deep cake tin with butter. Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and rest it over a pan of gently simmering water, making sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. Heat for 4–5 minutes, stirring occasionally, unti