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FreeStyle Gateau au Chocolat

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 4 minutes

Equipment

  • Electric Mixer or Muscles
  • 15 cm cake tin, bottom lined

Ingredients
  

  • 85 g Chocolate (Milk or Dark)
  • 65 g Butter (Salted or unsalted. If unsalted, add a pinch of salt)
  • 1/2 tsp Instant Coffee granules (optional)

Sifted Items (sift twice)

  • 25 g cocoa powder
  • 15 g Plain flour or corn starch (leave out if preferred gluten-free or want a really wet cake)

Egg Mixture

  • 3 small eggs
  • 70 g caster sugar

Instructions
 

  • Line the bottom of a 15cm cake tin. A preferred tin is light colored. Preheat the oven at 160C.
  • Place chocolate, butter and coffee granules. in a metal saucepan.
  • Place saucepan in a double boiler or over really low heat in an electric burner, until all the chocolate and butter have melted, stir through.
  • Add sifted items into the saucepan and fold in until the paste become smooth again.

Beat Eggs

  • Beat the 3 eggs until it is foaming and add half the sugar and beat until thick (like melted ice-cream).
  • Add the rest of the sugar and beat until ribbon stage.

Mix it up

  • Mix in 1/3 of the egg mixture into the chocolate mixture.
  • Fold in the rest of the egg mixture 1/2 at a time. Be quick and gentle, using a J-fold method. Don't take too long or you will lose all the air you have beaten into the eggs.
  • Drop the cake tin at a height twice (not more) to release the large air bubble.

Baking

  • Place the cake in the middle shelf of the oven and bake for 40 minutes. If you want the cake to be wet in the middle, then take it out 5 minutes earlier.