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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

What else can a pastry cook say?

Here's a good one. The recipe is always in my head. I like making one big cake. Don't worry it will sink in the middle because there's no flour in the recipe but that just means that the cavity can be filled with cream whipped with icing sugar and vanilla beans. It's delicious in it's dark silkiness. Best eaten with yoghurt ice cream and caramel sauce.


Soft Chocolate Cake

450g Cream
580g Dark Chocolate (Preferrably 66% cocoa mass)

9nos. Egg Yolk
6tsp Cornflour

9nos Egg WHite
150g Honey

Bring the Cream to the boil and pour onto dark chocolate stirring til it's all smooth

In another bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and cornflour till it's smooth. Combine the two mixtures

In a clean dry mixing bowl, whisk the egg whites together with the honey until soft peaks form. Fold this meringue into the Chocolatey Yolk mixture

Pour into a buttered and floured tin and bake at 170C for 15 - 20 minutes.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ah nior, this recipe serves brapa? and which tin measurement is correct? can't have a cake in a wide tin or i'll end up having a flat thin cake *grins*

caught the baking bug in January & hv bn baking choc cookies, cornflake cookies etc. ada compliments oredy..
1- from a 11 yr old boy, 'aunty, can u bake some more choc cookies for me?'

2- sous chef, Hyatt, 'Bev, ko ada oven besar ka di rumah?'. Me, 'Teda, napa?" him, 'you shud hv one and start selling yr cookies.' me: heeee.. *endless grin*