Special Mother’s Day flourless chocolate cake

Serves: 10

Cooking time: 45 mins (may need an extra 5 mins)

Really impress your mum by baking her special Mother’s Day cake. This really easy, rich chocolate cake recipe, with real chocolate pieces that you don’t have to spend time melting.

Ingredients:

  • Butter for greasing
  • 300g broken plain chocolate
  • 225g caster sugar
  • 180ml boiling water
  • 225g salted butter, cut into cubes
  • 6 free range eggs, separated
  • 1tsp instant coffee powder
  • 1tbsp vanilla extract

To top the cake:

  • Raspberries, strawberries and redcurrants or blueberries and blackberries
  • 200ml of crème fraiche.

Method:

  1. Grease and line the base of a solid-bottomed 23cm/9-inch round cake tin (a spring form is best). 
  2. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan/gas 4.
  3. In a large food processor pulse the chocolate and sugar until fine. Add the boiling water, butter, egg yolks, coffee powder and vanilla extract.
  4. In a glass bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff and then fold them into the chocolate mixture.
  5. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake in the hot oven for about 45 – 55 minutes. The top will be cracked like a desert fault line.
  6. After you take the cake out of the oven it will collapse into itself quite a bit. This is okay – its not meant to be a proud cool cake, its meant to be slightly rough around the edges and the crème fraiche and berries will hide any dips and cracks.
  7. Let the cake cool, then put it in the fridge for a few hours.
  8. When you are ready to serve, remove from the tin, smother the top in crème fraiche, then raspberries, strawberries and redcurrants (or blueberries, blackcurrants and blackberries).

Note:

You can also grate some more chocolate on top or dust some icing sugar.

Nutritional information:

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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