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Chocolate Cake

 Recipe from chef patrick

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chocolate cake

Ingredients :
A light chocolate cake recipe worth trying "quickly".

Chocolate cake recipe for 6 people :
4 egg yolks
4 egg whites
150g caster sugar
150g dark cooking chocolate, in shavings
5cl milk, hot
5cl double cream
120g ground hazelnuts
15g baking powder
110g strong flour

Direction :
1) Start your oven at 170 degrees Celsius (338F).
2) Place your egg yolks in large bowl, whisk in the hot milk. Then incorporate the sugar and the chocolate, and then add the rest of the dry ingredients in this order: the cream, the baking powder, the ground almonds and finally the flour.
3) Whisk your egg whites until stiff and carefully fold them into the chocolate mixture.
4)Pour the mixture in a baking tin and bake for an hour.

Serve with some vanilla custard.

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English Translation by Yann Seite

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