Name: Fondant au chocolat (Melt-in-your-mouth chocolate cake)
Yield: For 8 (photographed)
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 heaped tablespoon plain flour; 200 g good-quality dark chocolate, minimum 65% cocoa solids; 200 g butter, softened; 5 eggs; 200 g sugar; 1 tablespoon double-strength espresso coffee, hot

Preparation info

For
8
(photographed)

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Nobody Does it Better

By Trish Deseine

Published 2007

About

Every French home cook does a great chocolate cake. Very often served simply with some good-quality vanilla ice cream, it’s always a hit. This one is dangerously rich, more of a cooked mousse than a cake, with a tablespoon of flour added as an afterthought.

Ingredients

200 g good-quality dark chocolate, minimum 65% cocoa solids
1 tablespoon double-strength espresso coffee, hot

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Grease and flour a 25cm sandwich tin.

Break the chocolate into small pieces and put them in a mixing bowl, then set the bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Pour the hot coffee onto the chocolate and stir until the chocolat