Gateau Chocolate

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 50 g dark chocolate
• 30 ml cream, heated to skin temperature
• 40 g unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 tablespoon self raising flour
• 30 g cocoa powder
• 4 egg yolks
• 4 egg whites
• 40 g sugar
• 40 g sugar, extra
• confectioners' sugar, to serve (icing sugar)

Recipe

• 1 preheat your oven to 170c.
• 2 grease a 23cm cake tin.
• 3 melt the chocolate and cream in a double boiler over gently simmering water, stir to mix.
• 4 add the chocolate/cream mix to the butter and stir.
• 5 set aside, not in the fridge.
• 6 in another bowl, put the egg yolk and first 40g of sugar, stir until the egg yolk gets a creamy colour.
• 7 mix this into the chocolate mixture.
• 8 sift the flour and cocoa powder into this mixture, and mix through.
• 9 in another bowl, put the egg whites, beat for 1 minute and add the extra sugar and beat until stiff.
• 10 add 1/3 of beaten egg whites into the chocolate mixture, stir, then add the rest of the egg gently.
• 11 put it in the pre-heated oven and bake for about 50-60 minutes.
• 12 leave in the tin for about 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to cool.
• 13 serve with some icing sugar dusted over, and some cream over it.