Chocolate Almond Cake

Name: Chocolate Almond Cake
Yield: Serves 10–12
Ingredients: 225 g dark chocolate; small hot espresso or 4 tsp instant coffee in 3 tbsp boiling water; 1 tbsp butter; 125 g whole almonds, blitzed in the food processor to make ground almonds; 200 g chocolate; 225 g castor sugar (1 cups); 5 eggs; 2 tbsp cocoa; 1 tsp baking powder; 80 g flour (⅔ cup); 200 g butter (just under a ½ block butter)

Preparation info

Serves
10–12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Week in the Kitchen

By Karen Dudley

Published 2012

About

The roughly ground almonds in this cake give it an almost meaty texture. It is superb. You could use toasted hazelnuts instead of the almonds. Unlike the almonds, you will need to rub off the bitter skins of the hazelnuts after toasting.

Ingredients

225 g dark chocolate
small hot espresso or 4 tsp instant coffee in

Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven 180°C.

Melt the chocolate in a double