Quick recipe finder Chocolate mousse cake
By James Martin From Housecall
Ingredients
- 300g/10½oz dark chocolate
- 150g/5oz unsalted butter
- 55g/2oz caster sugar
- 6 eggs, separated
- a little extra butter, to grease the tin
To finish
Method
Preheat the oven 180C/350F/Gas 4. Butter a 20cm/8in springform cake tin with a removable base.
Melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over simmering water.
Whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks and in another bowl whisk the yolks with the sugar until pale.
Add the chocolate mixture to the egg yolks and sugar and fold in the egg whites.
Pour into the cake tin and bake for about 20 minutes. Cool and dust with icing sugar and cocoa powder.
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