Description
Possibly the best chocolate cake you’ll ever have…
Ingredients
Scale
- Cake tin (springform pan)
- 6 oz jam
- 10 oz fresh fruit, lightly pureed
- Vanilla pod seeds
- 2.5 oz dark chocolate
- 9 oz heavy cream
- 3.5 oz butter, room temperature
- 9 oz brown caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 8.5 oz flour
- 1 oz cacao powder
- 0.3 oz baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- Extra fruit, to garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 360 degrees. Grease the cake tin and dust with flour.
- Mix ¾ of the jam with the pureed fruit and vanilla seeds. Melt the chocolate and stir in the cream.
- Whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Keep whisking while adding the eggs one at the time. Add the chocolate-cream mixture.
- Sift the flour, cacao, baking powder and baking soda and add to the mixture.
- Put the batter in the cake tin and place in the oven, just under the middle. Bake for one hour.
- Heat the rest of the jam. Take cake out of the oven and puncture with little holes. Spread the warm jam on top. Let cool off and garnish with fresh fruit. Dust with cacao powder if you like.