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: 70 ml hot milk; 30 g cocoa powder; 20 g white chocolate, grated; 20 g dark chocolate, grated; 190 g unrefined icing sugar; 25 g butter, softened, cut into pieces; 130 g self-raising flour; 180 g butter, softened; 180 g unrefined brown sugar; 40 g dark chocolate (70 per cent cocoa); 3 eggs; 50 g ground almonds

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
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

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