Double Chocolate Cake

Origine : vin-domaine_guestres
Double Chocolate Cake
  • For : 8 servings
  • Time : 1 h 30
  • Difficulty : easy

Ingredients for Double Chocolate Cake :

  • 150 g coating chocolate
  • 100 g powdered bitter cocoa
  • 200 g butter
  • 7 big eggs
  • 250 g caster sugar (160 + 90)
  • fine salt

Technical stages for Double Chocolate Cake :

  • Seperate the egg yolks.
  • cremer the yolks with 160 g sugar.
  • Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie with butter.
  • Mix well when chocolate is melted.
  • Sieve the cocoa on top of the melted chocolate.
  • Mix.
  • Place the egg whites in a bowl with a pinch fine salt.
  • Beat them very firm.
  • Add the rest of caster sugar and whisk once again for one minute.
  • Pour the chocolate mixture on the creamed egg yolks.
  • Mix thoroughly.
  • Delicately add the whites until you obtain a smooth preparation.
  • Pour one third of the batter in a pan and place in the fridge.
  • Pour the rest in a slightly greased cake pan.
  • Bake in hot oven at 180°C for 25 minutes.
  • When finished, leave to cool to room temperature then remove from the mold.
  • Coat the surface of the cake 2 cm high using the rest of the preparation stored in the fridge.
  • Place in the fridge for 1 hour.
  • Bake 10 minutes at 220°C.
  • When finished, remove from the oven and leave to rest 10 mn before serving.
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