Chocolate cake

Name: Chocolate cake
Ingredients: 225 g plain chocolate or couverture - grated; 225 g plain chocolate or couverture - grated; 100 g unsalted butter; 4 eggs - separated; 225 g icing sugar; A few drops of vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons cornflour

Preparation info

For
6-10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Salt is Essential

By Shaun Hill

Published 2016

About

There’s very little flour involved, so this cake may be left a little underdone with no ill effect. What flour there is, isn’t wheat flour, so it is also gluten-free.

Ingredients

225 g plain chocolate or couverture - grated
100 g unsalted butter

Cake
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/fan 170°C/gas mark 5. Line an 18cm round cake tin with baking parchment.

Melt the chocolate and butter together by putting both in a bowl standing in warm water. Stir now and again.

Whisk the egg whites until stiff.

Whisk the egg yolks,