Dark Chocolate Cake
Dark Chocolate Cake
- 45 minutes
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Prep time - 50 minutes
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Cooking time - 14
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Servings - Medium
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Difficulty
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 150g self raising flour
- 150 grams block
- 150g caster sugar
- 4 medium eggs
- 200g dark chocolate chips (or chocolate bar cut into small pieces)
- 1 level teaspoon baking powder
- Baking tin: 25cm deep cake tin (greased and base lined with baking paper)
Instructions
Steps
- Preheat the oven to 170°C, 160°C fan oven, Gas mark 4.
- Place all ingredients except the chocolate in a bowl and beat with a spoon or mixer for 3-4 minutes.
- Put 150g chocolate in a bowl over a pan with boiling water and melt the chocolate (make sure no water splashes into the chocolate!)
- Stir the chocolate until smooth, mix into the batter and fold in the remaining chocolate (chips).
- Spoon the batter into the prepared tin.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 50-60 minutes. Remove the cake from the oven and leave to rest in the tin for 2 minutes. Turn the cake out onto a wire rack and cool.
