Chocolate Indulgence Cake

Added on Sat Jun 23 2007

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The Basics

• Dish: Baking
• cuisine: French
• Serves: 8-10
• Prep Time: 0hrs 5 mins
• Cooking Time: 0hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 8oz Menier Chocolate
• 4oz Meunier Chocolate
• 4oz butter
• 8oz butter
• 3oz self raising flour
• 1 fluid oz milk
• 8oz icing sugar
• 8oz castor sugar

Method

For the Cake
1.Melt the chocolate (8oz) togther with the butter in a double boiler.
2. Separate the eggs and whisk the yolks with the sugar until smooth and creamy.
3. Add the chocolate mixture whilst beating very fast (to avoid lumpiness)
4. Whisk egg whites until stiff
5. Fold flour into the chocolate mixture and then fold in egg whites until you have a smooth mixture.
6. Pour into a well lined 7 inch cake tin
7. Put into preheated oven (400 deg F) and cook for half an hour

For the Icing
8. Add sugar to butter and heat in saucepan.
9. Once the butter is melted add in the milk and chocolate(4oz) to the mixture and mix
10. Pour over cake while icing is still quite warm