Looking to indulge your tastebuds? Here’s a couple of ripper chocolate cake recipes you can make at home. Enjoy!!
Chocolate “diplomatic cake”
Ingredients for six people:
700gr (1½ lb) dark chocolate
500ml (17 fl oz) double cream
240gr (8½ oz) sugar
170gr (6 oz) flour
70gr (2½ oz) potato flour
120gr (4 oz) butter, melted and cold
100ml (3½ fl oz) rum, diluted in 100ml water
6 eggs
cocoa powder
Cocoa-based liqueur
a pinch of salt
Directions:
For the discs
Preheat the oven at 200ºC (392ºF)
Melt 100gr (3½ oz) of chocolate on a very low heat. Beat the eggs with salt and sugar until foamy, add the flour, the butter, and the melted chocolate. Mix well until completely blended.
Grease 6 12cm diameter ramekins, and pour in the mix (keep aside two tablespoons). Bake for 20 minutes.
Once out of the oven, let it cool for 10 minutes, then cut each sponge lengthwise into two discs. Dip them in the rum.
For the chocolate mousse:
Melt the remaining chocolate, mix it to the cream and the remaining cream, whisk it until it doubles its volume.
Spread the mousse on the top of six discs, then put a disc on top, another layer of mousse, and dust with cocoa powder.
Not enough chocolate in this recipe? Dip these cakes in a chocolate fountain then!
Mascarpone cheese and chocolate cake
Ingredients for six people:
For the sponge:
230gr (8 oz) flour
180gr (6½ oz) sugar
60gr (2 oz) bitter cocoa powder
2 glasses of milk
1 tsp of baking powder
caster sugar for dusting
For the filling:
255gr (9 oz) mascarpone cheese
2 cups of espresso coffee
3 tbsp sugar
Directions:
Preheat the oven at 160. Mix the cocoa powder with lukewarm milk, add sugar, and the flour and baking powder, one tablespoon at the time. Mix well before adding the next one.
Bake for 15-20 minutes. The cake will have to form a thin crust on the surface, but will have to remain soft, almost wet inside.
Once out of the oven, let it cool on a rack.
In the meantime mix together mascarpone cheese, sugar and coffee, until soft and creamy.
Cut the sponge into two discs, lengthwise and spread the mascarpone cream all over one of them. Put the second disc on top, and dust it with caster sugar only right before serving.
Italian coffee, mascarpone cheese, eggs and cocoa are also the main ingredients of tiramisu. There are infinite variations, I recommend this spicy tiramisu recipe.