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Dark chocolate cake recipe
- Prep time:
- 20 mins
- Cook time:
- 1 hr
- Serves:
- makes 1 cake
Thomasina Miers shares her recipe for a special chocolate cake – the first recipe she cooked when she was 8 years old
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Ingredients
- 190g dark chocolate, chopped
- 190g Butter, plus extra for greasing
- 190g caster sugar
- 100g plain flour
- good pinch Cinnamon
- 3 Eggs, beaten
To serve
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 190C/gas 5 and lightly grease a 20cm round cake tin.2. Combine the chocolate and butter in a small bowl. Suspend the bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water and stir until the mixture is melted and smooth. Add the caster sugar and continue to stir until melted.
3. Remove the bowl from the heat. Sift in the flour, cinnamon and a good pinch of salt and mix well.
4. Slowly incorporate the eggs until the mixture is well combined.
5. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake 40-45 minutes.
6. Serve the cake for tea, dusted with icing sugar and double cream or, for special occasions, serve it covered in melted Mars Bars, Rolos and crumbled Flake bars.
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View all comments (9)Well I am going to try this, sounds delicious and the topping is optional!
This just doesen't do it for me. Swimming in melted Mars bars!!!
this recipe is quite easy, but agree it looks awful in the picture
sorry but that picture doesn't make it look very pretty!
This recipe really does contain salt...you already have the icing sugar in it and the salt just brings out the flavours more.
What size eggs are used (is this the same for all recipes when no size egg is specified)?
Sorry the recipe does have a pinch of salt, its in the method, and tom is camilla parker bowles son.
The recipe hasnt got salt in it, i think that was just a comment passed by matthew fort. And T.P.B, is camilla parker bowles son.
I thought that this recipe called for a pinch of salt? And who is this Tom Parker Bowels chap?