Chocolate cake
By: James Martin From: James Martin: Sweet
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Chocolate cake
- 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
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Ingredients
- oil, for greasing
- 300g dark chocolate, broken in pieces
- 150g unsalted Butter
- 6 Eggs
- 50g caster sugar
For the passion fruit mousse:
- 250g Mascarpone
- 3 tbsp icing sugar
- 3-4 tbsp double cream
- pulp from 3 passion fruit
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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View all comments (7)I want to make it but the conversion calculator you offer does not work
was easy to make and very delicious
so simple to make and very delicious
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 !!!
marvelous cake..so melted in ur mouth...yummy yummy...goey
this was excellent, the whole family loved it
This was simply delicious and very easy to make!