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Chocolate and Almond Cake

Source of Recipe


my friend Kristy (original source unknown)



List of Ingredients



• 125g dark chocolate, chopped
  
• 1 tablespoon black coffee
  
• 1 tablespoon brandy or grand marnier (optional)
  
• 100g castor sugar
  
• 100g unsalted butter
  
• 100g ground almonds
  
• 3 eggs, separated
  
• icing sugar
  
• optional: 1/2 teaspoon pure orange oil
  






Instructions



1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees c. Butter a round 18cm round cake tin and line it with baking paper. (I normally use a springform tin)
   
   
2. Combine chocolate, brandy and coffee in a bowl over water, or in a double boiler. Stir when melted and add butter and sugar. Stir well. Add ground almonds and stir very well. Lightly beat egg yolks and stir into bowl off heat.
   
   
3. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until firm (I use the electric mixer for this). Lighten the chocolate mixture with a spoonful of egg white, then fold in the rest of the whites, an dspoon into the prepared tin.
   
   
4. Bake for 40-45 mins. The cake will test a little gooey in the centre and will have developed a fragile crust. Completely cool in the tin, then carefully invert onto a serving plate.
   
   
5. Dust with icing sugar and serve with double cream.
   
   






Final Comments


When you cook it, the cake will rise (due to the beaten egg whites) and will collapse into a thin cake once cooled.