Aromatic Chocolate Cake

Name: Aromatic Chocolate Cake
Yield: Serves 4-6
Ingredients: 100 g/4 oz darkest chocolate (containing at least 50% cocoa solids); 7.5 cm/3 in piece cinnamon stick; 4-5 cardamom pods; 2 tablespoons water; 1 level teaspoon salt; 1 rounded tablespoon cocoa powder; 100 g/4 oz light muscovado sugar; 2 rounded tablespoons Greek yoghurt; 4 large eggs; 50 g/2 oz stale white bread, made into breadcrumbs; icing sugar for dusting

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

The smell of spices as you cut into this intense, squidgy cake is, to me, incredibly exciting. The cake is better if made at least a day in advance, it uses breadcrumbs instead of flour, which give it a moist, crumbly texture.

Ingredients

4-5 cardamom pods
7.5 cm/3 in piece cinnamon stick

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Butter a 15 cm/6 in cake tin (or a small loaf tin), put a disc of buttered baking parchment on the bottom and dust with flour. Extract the seeds from the cardamom pods and break up the cinnamon roughly. Pu