Anouchka’s Chocolate Cake

Name: Anouchka’s Chocolate Cake
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 20 g white chocolate, grated; 25 g butter, softened, cut into pieces; 30 g cocoa powder; 180 g unrefined brown sugar; 130 g self-raising flour; 3 eggs; 50 g ground almonds; 40 g dark chocolate (70 per cent cocoa); 70 ml hot milk; 190 g unrefined icing sugar; 20 g dark chocolate, grated; 180 g butter, softened

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 15

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

My daughter usually prefers fresh mangoes to chocolate, but sometimes makes an exception in the case of this very special two-chocolate cake.

Ingredients

For the cake

180 g butter, softened
180 g unrefined brown sugar
40

Europe
France
Cake
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Heat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Butter a 20cm push-up-bottom or springform cake tin.

Cream together the butter and sugar with an electric whisk until creamy and fluffy. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie (that is, in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water). Break the eggs in