Chocolate cake

By: James Martin From: James Martin: Sweet

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Prep time:
25 mins
Cook time:
25 mins
Serves:
8

Deliciously moist and light, James Martin's chocolate cake is served with a heavenly passion fruit and mascarpone mousse

Ingredients

  • oil, for greasing
  • 300g dark chocolate, broken in pieces
  • 150g unsalted Butter
  • 6 Eggs
  • 50g caster sugar

For the passion fruit mousse:

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Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Grease the base and sides of a 20cm round cake tin and line with greaseproof paper.

2. Melt the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water.

3. Whisk the yolks with two tablespoons of the sugar until pale and light. Stir in cooled melted chocolate.

4. Whip the whites until they resemble soft peaks and gradually whisk in the remaining sugar.

5. Gently stir one-third of the whites into the chocolate mixture followed by the remainder. Transfer the cake mixture into the tin.

6. Bake for 20 minutes in the middle of the oven, until just firm to the touch. Leave the cake to cool in the tin for a few minutes before turning out and transferring to a wire rack.

7. To make the passion fruit mousse, beat together all the ingredients. Serve with the cake.

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I want to make it but the conversion calculator you offer does not work

Mertle Mertle Posted 02 Aug 2009 4:57 PM
 

was easy to make and very delicious

karenF2785 karenF2785 Posted 28 Jul 2009 4:04 PM
 

so simple to make and very delicious

karenF2785 karenF2785 Posted 28 Jul 2009 3:20 PM
 

i would say the cake is a wee bit too soft cause it falls to pieces as soon as you lift it out the tub lmao !!!

Anonymous Anonymous Posted 27 Jun 2009 1:38 PM
 

marvelous cake..so melted in ur mouth...yummy yummy...goey

Anonymous Anonymous Posted 22 Jun 2009 11:24 AM
 

this was excellent, the whole family loved it

FrankD62778 FrankD62778 Posted 01 Apr 2009 4:18 PM
 

This was simply delicious and very easy to make!

JuliaS91031 JuliaS91031 Posted 03 Mar 2009 5:51 AM