Rich Chocolate Cake

It was Gus' birthday last week & he wanted a cake that tasted like & was pretty much just chocolate ganache! A google search found me a recipe by David Lebovitz that sounded promising so I decided to try it out the week before just in case! Here is that recipe, with how I made the cake.

Ingredients:

290g dark  chocolate (I used Nestle cooking chocolate)
200 g butter
5 large eggs (room temperature)
1 cup sugar

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 175C.

2. Butter a springform pan then dust it with cocoa powder, tap out any excess. Wrap the outside with aluminum foil in case the pan isn't watertight.

3. Melt the LARGE amount of chocolate and butter, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Remove from heat.

4. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar, then whisk in the melted chocolate mixture until smooth.

5. Pour the batter into the pan and cover the top of the pan with foil. 

6. Put the springform pan into a large roasting pan, and add enough hot water to the baking pan to come about halfway up to the outside of the cake pan.

7. Bake for 1 hour & a half (check after 1 hour and a quarter).

8. The cake is done when it feels just set, if you gently touch the center, your finger should come away clean.

9. Remove the pan from the water bath and remove the foil. 

10. Let the cake cool completely on a cooling rack.

It was divine! Gus loved it! It was very rich & strongly flavoured.

And the girls at my new job enjoyed it too! I took in the leftovers as there was no way I was leaving the leftovers at home to tempt me!

But.... then Gus decided he wanted something else.... so see the next post!!