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Soft chocolate cake with crema di mascarpone
- Prep time:
- 30 mins
- Cook time:
- 1 hr
- Serves:
- 8
Theo Randall uses top-quality Valhrona chocolate to make this most decadent of desserts with a marsala wine-spiked mascarpone cream
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Ingredients
For the cake
- Butter, for greasing
- 400g good quality dark chocolate, minimum 66% cocoa solids
- 6 Eggs
- 150g caster sugar
- 300ml double cream
For the mascarpone cream
- 150g double cream
- 200 g Mascarpone
- 1/2 vanilla pod, split, seeds scraped out
- 50g icing sugar
- 25ml Marsala
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 150C/gas 3. Place a roasting tin into the oven to heat up.2. For the cake: grease and line a 20cm/8in round cake tin with parchment paper.
3. Melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water. (Make sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the surface of the water.) Stir frequently for 4-5 minutes, or until the chocolate is completely melted. Remove from the heat and set aside.
4. Meanwhile, separate the eggs. Whisk the yolks with 100g of the sugar until pale and fluffy.
5. In another bowl, whisk half of the double cream to soft peaks.
6. Whisk the egg whites and add, while whisking, gradually add the remaining 50g of sugar until soft peaks form and is light and glossy.
7. Mix the melted chocolate into the egg yolk mixture. Stir in the remaining double cream, then fold in the whipped cream. Carefully fold in the egg whites and pour the whole mixture into the prepared cake tin.
8. Place the tin in the preheated roasting tin. Pour in enough boiling water to come right up the sides of the cake tin, then bake for 45 minutes to an hour, or until the cake is firm on the top with a slight wobble. Remove the cake from the oven to cool.
9. For the mascarpone cream: mix all of the mascarpone cream ingredients together. Add extra marsala and sugar, to taste.
10. To serve, slice the cake into wedges and serve with the mascarpone cream.
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I didn't have any Valhrona chocolate left in the cupboard ;) so I had to use a cheaper alternative. The cake was extremely soft and very indulgent. I'm always looking for chocolate cakes that have intense flavour and this one really delivers.