Torta al cioccolato

Name: Torta al cioccolato (Chocolate cake)
Yield: Makes one 24 cm (9½ in) cake
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons milk; 200 g (7 oz) good quality unsweetened, dark chocolate; 50 g (1¾ oz) cake flour; 1½ teaspoons baking powder; 4 eggs, separated; 100 g (3½ oz) butter; 150 g (5½ oz) caster (superfine) sugar

Chocolate cake

Preparation info

Makes
one
24 cm cake

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Twelve

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2003

About

It is always useful having a good, simple chocolate cake recipe in your repertoire that can be referred to often.

Ingredients

200 g (7 oz) good quality unsweetened, dark chocolate
6 tablespoons<

Europe
Italy
Cake
Mediterranean
Tuscany
Vegetarian
March

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F/Gas 4). Butter and flour a 24 cm (9½ in) springform cake tin.

Break up the chocolate into small pieces and melt it together with the milk and the butter in a small saucepan, set over a larger saucepan of simmering water. Whip the egg yolks with