Anne Willan

Gâteau au chocolat de Metz

Light Chocolate Cake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8–10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000French Regional Cooking
French Regional Cooking

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Metz chocolate cake is rich, yet has an unusually light texture given by potato starch.

Ingredients

250 g semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped

Method

Set the oven at moderate (175°C/350°F). Butter the cake pan.

Put the chocolate and milk in a medium, heavy-based saucepan and heat gently, stirring constantly, until the chocolate is melted and smooth. Remove from the heat and beat in the vanilla, half the sugar and the potato starch. In a small bowl, mix the almonds with the egg yolks; then stir them into the chocolate mixture. Beat th