This ought to be the default chocolate cake.
- ⏲️ Prep time: 40 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 45 min to 1 hour
- 🍽️ Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 100g (or 3/4 cup) of flour
- 150g (or 1/2 cup) of butter
- 100g (or 3/4 cup) of cocoa
- 300g (or 1 cup) of sugar
- 100ml of coffee
- 6 eggs
- 2 tea spoons of baking powder
Directions
- Melt the sugar with the coffee in a bain marie (a larger pan of water with a smaller pan containing the ingredients inside it).
- Break the eggs separate yolks from whites in different containers.
- Melt butter in sugar coffee bain marie.
- Whisk whites ’till they froth.
- Pour cocoa into bain marie and mix well.
- Preheat the oven (180 °C).
- Pour the yolks into the bain marie, mix well.
- Pour the mixture in the bain marie into the bowl with the whites.
- Sieve the flour and baking powder into the bowl with the whites.
- Mix everything in the bowl in a folding manner.
- Butter the baking pan and pour in the mixture.
- Leave in oven for 45 min. If after 45 min the cake hasn’t come away from the sides of the pan leave for another 10 min.