PREPARATION GUIDE: SIMPLISSIME CHOCOLATE CAKE

•  6 people
•  Preparation: 20 min
•  Baking: 25 min

INGREDIENTS

For the cake:

• 80 g flour
• 125 g chocolate pastry
• 125 g butter
• 125 g of sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 sachet of baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt

For whipped cream:

• 20 cl whole cream (very cold)
• 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
• 1 pack of fixed whipped cream

PREPARATION

STEP 1

While the oven preheats to 180 ° C (th.6), prepare the cake batter of this chocolate recipe. Begin by cutting the chocolate and 115 g of butter in pieces, and by melting them, either in the bain marie (that is to say in a salad bowl placed over a saucepan filled with a bottom of water) -wave.

STEP 2

Separate the whites from the egg yolks. When ready, mix the butter and the melted chocolate with the flour and baking powder (preferably both sieved to avoid lumps), then with sugar, salt and finally, eggs. To finish, beat the whites in firm snow and incorporate them gently (stirring with the spoon from bottom to top) to the preparation.

STEP 3

To cook your cake, grease a round mold (type missed) with the remaining 10 g of butter spread with paper towel, then pour the dough in it, bake for more or less 25 min (the tip of a knife must stand out Barely moist), unmold the still hot cake on a wire rack, and wait a few hours before tasting it.

STEP 4

When ready to serve, prepare the chantilly by beating the liquid cream (very cold) with the whisk for 1 min, then adding the vanilla sugar and the fixed whipped cream (as soon as the cream holds the branches of the whip, you can stop) then Present the cut cake in individual pieces, and place the cream either side by side or over it.