Hard to determine if this is a cake or a dessert? But you won't spend too much time wondering over that issue because it won't last that long. This has been given the tick of approval by my firstborn son's girlfriend, who is a connoisseur of all things chocolate.
Ingredients
150g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids) roughly chopped
150g unsalted softened butter
6 eggs
1 cup (220g) caster sugar
3/4 cup (90g) almond meal
1 Tablespoon good quality cocoa powder sifted
Grated zest and juice of 1 lime
Icing sugar to dust
Method
Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Line the base of a 23cm springform tin with baking paper and grease the sides.
Fill a small saucepan 1/3 full with water and bring to a gentle simmer. Place chocolate and butter in a small bowl, place over pan and stir until chocolate is melted, (Don't let the base of the bowl touch the simmering water).
Beat eggs and sugar until tripled in volume and is pale and moussey.
In a separate bowl mix almond meal with the cocoa and then fold gently into the egg and sugar mixture, followed by the slightly cooled chocolate and butter.
Fold in lime zest and juice.
Pour and scrape this mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 40-45 minutes (start checking at 35 minutes). When done the cake will be just firm on the top, but still have a wobble underneath.
Remove from the oven and sit the cake in it's pan on a wire rack to cool. Once the first heat has left it, drape a clean tea towel over the top, to stop it getting too crusty.
Dust with icing sugar.
Yum
Mamma Marmalade
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