Gâteau Chocolat

Name: Gâteau Chocolat
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Ingredients: 300 g 70%-cocoa best quality chocolate; 300 g butter, softened; 200 g castor sugar; 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract; 3 eggs; 350 g ground almonds; 60 g cornflour

Gâteau Chocolat

Author: Sophia Lindop
Prep Time: 20
Cook Time: 50
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Yield: 8-10
Category: Baked

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Description

Impress your guests with this decadent Gâteau Chocolat.

Ingredients

300 g 70%-cocoa best quality chocolate
300 g butter, softened
200 g castor sugar
1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
3 eggs
350 g ground almonds
60 g cornflour

Instructions

Topping

150 g 70%-cocoa best quality chocolate, melted

1 cup (250 ml) cream

Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Grease a 23 cm loose-bottomed springform baking tin.

Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.

Cream the butter and sugar together. Mix in the vanilla extract. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Gently fold in ground almonds and cornflour, and then melted chocolate, and mix until well combined. Pour mixture into prepared baking tin and bake for 50 minutes. Cool on a rack.

Remove from the tin and place on a cake plate. Mix the melted chocolate and cream together and spread over the cake. Decorate with chocolate-dipped roses.

Tips

To make chocolate-dipped roses, clean roses and dip them into melted and cooled chocolate. Chill on greased baking paper until set.

Sophia Lindop

When it comes to food, Sophia likes to get down and dirty, she loves good, wholesome home cooking, chunks of bread dipped in juices, melting butter. She loves presentation, colour, texture and believes that food should not only taste good, but that tasting good, starts with looking good! Sophia runs a cookery school from her lovely Bergvliet home.