sweet chocolate cake

If you like chocolate and you want to surprise your family with a chocolate cake with a rich cocoa flavour , this recipe is ideal for you. It is a very simple recipe but with the most delicious results in appearance and flavour: a sponge cake full of cocoa flavour, and covered with a glaze and chocolate shavings that is very easy to make , but that looks very attractive.

So you can call it a cake or a chocolate pie, but this recipe is perfect for a day of celebration, or those Sundays when we decide that we are going to make a great dessert to celebrate that it is the weekend.

This is one of the recipes included in the De Buyer HomeBaking Pastry Set. It is a complete pack to equip you with some essential moulds if you like to make pastries at home. It includes a square mould with high walls ideal for all types of cakes (the mould we use today), a rectangular mould for plum cakes, breads and tall cakes, and finally a low, removable square mould for making low cakes.

Thus, de Buyer has released this set with the idea of ​​putting the essentials to equip you in one pack, or offering a nice box to give as a gift when you want to surprise a cook. Like this one, there is also the De Buyer HomeBaking cake set. If you are curious, take a look at it because it has some very interesting accessories as well.

Let's get on with the recipe. You should know that you can also enjoy it without the frosting, just with that chocolate sponge base. At the end of the post I also talk about it and a couple of ideas for presenting it, without needing the chocolate coating. It's a recipe that I loved, although I had no doubts that I would like the recipe, because it is made by French pastry chefs in collaboration with the house. I definitely encourage you to get started with it now.

Ingredients

• 325 g dark chocolate
• 225 g butter
• 250 g powdered sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 125 g of wheat flour
• 2 g baking powder

For the frosting:

• 8 g gelatin (4 sheets)
• 65 g of water
• 110 g powdered sugar
• 35 g of pure unsweetened cocoa
• 60 g of liquid cream

Decoration:

• Chocolate chips
• Crunchy nuggets

Preparation

1. In a saucepan, melt the chocolate and butter in a bain-marie .
2. Mix the eggs with the sugar. Gradually add the butter and chocolate mixture, then add the yeast mixed with the flour (you can sift it first).
3. Pour the mixture into the high-sided square mould from the De Buyer HomeBaking Pastry Set.
4. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 35 minutes.

1. Frosting : Place the gelatin sheets in a bowl of cold water to rehydrate them.
2. Boil the water with the sugar. Add the cocoa and the liquid cream. Let it boil for 3 minutes.
3. Remove from heat and add the gelatin, well drained.
4. Pass through a sieve to ensure there are no lumps, place in a bowl covered with film, and allow to cool.
5. When the glaze has cooled to about 40ºC, place the cake on a cooling rack (with a baking sheet or foil under the rack to catch any dripping glaze), and pour the glaze over the top.
6. Using a frosting spatula , spread the frosting evenly over the top and sides.
7. Decorate with chocolate shavings and let the cake cool in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

Grades:

• You may prefer not to make the icing, or just enjoy the basic chocolate cake recipe for breakfast or a snack. You certainly can, just make the main cake (follow the first part of the recipe), and when the cake has cooled after taking it out of the oven, sprinkle it with icing sugar to make it pretty.

• You can also make other decorations, such as decorating with crushed hazelnuts or almonds (more or less crushed, with a hand chopper you will be able to control the grinding well), or adding fruit (red fruits go fabulously with chocolate).