Chocolate Cake

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Title: Chocolate Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 1 servings

3/4 c Butter
3/8 lb Chocolate; broken up
4 Eggs; separated
3/4 c Caster sugar
1/2 c Ground almonds; toasted
1/4 c Flour
1/8 ts Cream of tartar
To serve:
Icing sugar
Ginger ice-cream

Melt the butter over low heat. Remove from the stove, add
the chocolate and stir once or twice until the chocolate
has melted. Beat the egg yolks with 1/2 cup of the sugar
until pale and thick. Stir in the melted chocolate,
almonds and flour. Beat the eggwhites and cream of tartar
until they form soft peaks. Gradually add the remaining
sugar and beat until the mixture has a meringue
consistency. Fold 1/4 of the egg whites into the chocolate
mixture, then carefully fold in the remaining egg whites.
Grease and flour a 22cm square tin lined with greaseproof
paper and spoon in the mixture. Bake in a preheated 190'C
oven for 40 to 45 minutes or until the cake is cooked.
Remove from the oven, allow to cool in the tin, then turn
out onto a rack. Dust with icing sugar and cut in squares
to serve. Can be served with thickened cream or with ginger
ice-cream.
Joan Campbell Bon Appetit - Exec.Chef Magnus Johansson

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