Luxury Chocolate Cake Recipe (serves 12-14)

Ingredients

• 375g The Chocolate Society Cooking Chocolate (70% cocoa solids), chopped
• 6 large eggs
• 375g unsalted butter
• 375g unrefined caster sugar
• 75g plain flour (sifted)
• 2 tbsp The Chocolate Society Cocoa Powder

Method

1. Grease and line a 24cm tin with wax paper
2. Separate the eggs.
3. Melt the butter and chocolate very gently to 50°C, stirring regularly over boiling water. Do NOT get water in the chocolate
4. Remove from the heat and add the whipped egg yolks, sugar and flour, folding until well incorporated
5. Whisk the egg whites to form soft peaks and quickly fold them into the chocolate mixture – start with a quarter and then add the rest.
6. Pour into a tin and bake in middle of oven for 40 minutes. Don’t worry if the cake seems ‘wobbly’ inside when taken out of the oven – it will sink and set.
7. Remove cake from oven and cool in the tin.
8. Turn out and ice the cake and finish with a sprinkle of cocoa powder