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Fudgy flourless chocolate cake

Jenny Papazi

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Reader Jenny Papazi's fudgy flourless chocolate cake was voted one of the best by Richard Cornish.
Reader Jenny Papazi's fudgy flourless chocolate cake was voted one of the best by Richard Cornish.Eddie Jim

Epicure reader Jenny Papazi's rich, moist chocolate cake is made without flour, so that despite its weight and richness it is delicate and needs to be handled with care. She recommends serving it with summer fruit and fresh double cream. We recommend baking the day before to give the cake time to firm up. A truly decadent cake. Jenny's recipe was voted one of the best by writer Richard Cornish in 2011.

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Ingredients

  • 400g unsalted butter

  • 250g castor sugar

  • 8 eggs, separated,

  • 400g chocolate, 70 per cent cocoa

  • 250g almond meal

  • Punnet of raspberries

  • Icing sugar to dust

Method

  1. ■ Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease a 26cm round cake tin and line with baking paper.

    ■ Melt the butter, either in a bowl in the microwave or in a bowl over a saucepan of water brought to the boil then removed from the heat. Pour into a mixing bowl and add the castor sugar. Beat together until creamy.

    ■ Beat the egg yolks with a fork and add to the butter and sugar. Melt the chocolate, as per the butter, and pour into the butter, sugar and egg mix. Add the almond meal and mix well.

    ■ In a separate bowl beat the egg whites until slightly stiff peaks form. Take a quarter of the egg whites and fold into the chocolate mix until completely incorporated. Gently fold in the remaining egg whites a third of the mix at a time.

    ■ Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake 50-60 minutes or until done. The cake is ready when a skewer inserted into the centre comes out cleanly, or with just a small amount of mix clinging to it.

    ■ Leave to cool before removing from the tin.

    ■ Decorate the centre of the cake with raspberries and dust with a little icing sugar.

    ■ Serve with double cream and fresh berries.

    ** Read Richard Cornish's chocolate cake story here.

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