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[The Dogmother]

I had this rich and gooey cake at a friend's house, and they sent me this recipe.. it is very rich and truly delicious

 

(No flour, so will suit a gluten free diet)

 

Cloud Forest Chocolate Cake

(Serves 12)

 

Ingredients

For the cake:

180g cacao, finely grated

250g unsalted butter

6 eggs

50g light muscovado sugar

125g golden caster sugar

100g ground almonds

 

For the icing:

250ml double cream

75g golden caster sugar

90g cacao, finely grated

 

Method:

Preheat the oven to 170°C (fan). Line a 25cm springform cake tin with baking paper.

 

For the cake, melt the cacao and butter by placing them in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water.

 

Meanwhile, beat the eggs with the muscovado and caster sugar until pale and doubled in volume.

 

Stir the cacao mixture into the eggs. Fold in the ground almonds, then tip the cake mix into the prepared tin.

Bake for 35 minutes, or until slightly but evenly risen all over and a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean.

 

Leave to cool in the tin.

 

Prepare the icing by gently heating the cream and sugar until almost boiling.

 

Remove from the heat then stir in the cacao until it has melted. Leave to cool then spread over the cake.

 

Tip - Dust with icing sugar or cocoa powder instead of the icing. Keep the cake at room temperature – it can go too solid if put in the fridge.

 

I haven't tried making it myself yet, so any reports would be great.

[chickencam]

Uses loads of eggs, so that has got to be good

 

I will have to give it a go, I am getting on average 38-40 eggs per week at the moment

[The Dogmother]

Blimey!

[Couperwife]

sounds scrummy

 

erm, whats "cacao, finely grated"?

 

where can I get it??

 

or is it something really obvious and im being really (grey with)blonde

 

cathy

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[The Dogmother]

It's raw chocolate, but my friend just used Green & Blacks cocoa powder and it tasted fine. I suspect that using cacao will give a stronger, more bitter taste.

[Couperwife]

oooh, thanks claret

 

so Ill be ok to use basic cocoa powder wont I

 

Im looking forward to making this

 

cathy

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[Daphne]

Me too - except will it work without the icing do you think?

Edited April 29, 2010 by Guest

[Couperwife]

going to try

 

but hold on - dont have a 25cm cake tin ill try and "cheat"

 

cathy

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[The Dogmother]

Do let me know how you get on. I haven't tried it yet myself, but it really was delicious; reminded me of Rick Stein's melting chocolate cake, which I have a recipe for somewhere.

[Falkor]

oooh sounds delish and I have ooodles of eggs!

 

If is is rubbish weather tomorrow looks like I will be baking

[Couperwife]

Ive got my 25cm springloaded cake tin

 

AND....

 

all the ingredients

 

right - ready to ROCK!!!! (and probably put on 2 stone )

 

cathy

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[Jules.]

[chickencam]

How did it go?

[Daphne]

Mine was OK - but not brilliant. This is probably because I used cocoa powder and had to guess at the weight. I used 2 dessertspoons which I'd say was about right from the chocolatey-taste perspective (could use more if you wanted) but I'm guessing powder isn't going to give the same result as a melted liquid which you'd get with the cacoa. Its nice and moist (thats the ground nut). I think if I did it again I'd try with a bar of dark chocolate.

[chickencam]

I make a chocolate orange cake that involves grated chocolate and you get a much richer chocolatey result than with cocoa powder.