BASIC CHOCOLATE CAKE
ingredients:
240g dark chocolate
220g unsalted butter
1 ½ cups caster sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp natural vanilla extract
2 cups plain flour
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
½ cup hazelnut meal
⅓ cup dark cocoa powder, dissolved in ⅔ cup hot water
how to make it?
1 Preheat oven to 160°C. Combine the chocolate and 75g butter in a small saucepan and melt gently over a low heat. Set aside.
2 Put the remaining butter and caster sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat with the paddle attachment for 5 minutes, until light and creamy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla.
3 Sift the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda together, then fold into the butter mixture with the almond meal and cocoa mixture. Spoon into a lined 23cm cake tin and bake for 45 minutes, until a skewer can be inserted and removed cleanly.
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