Basler Schoggitorf chocolate cake
Ingredients
for 16 pieces
| 300 g | dark chocolate, coarsely chopped |
| 75 g | cane sugar |
| 3 | egg yolks |
| 100 g | butter, soft |
| 3 | egg whites |
| ¼ tsp | sea salt |
| 75 g | white flour |
| ¼ tsp | baking powder |
How it's done
Chocolate
Place the chocolate in a thin-sided bowl and suspend over a gently simmering bain-marie, ensuring that the bowl does not touch the water. Melt the chocolate and stir until smooth.
Sponge mixture
Place the sugar and egg yolks into a bowl, mix using the whisk on a hand mixer until the mixture turns a paler colour. Add the chocolate and butter, continue to beat briefly.
Beat the egg whites with the fleur de sel until stiff.
Combine the flour and baking powder, add to the egg mixture in layers along with the egg whites and carefully fold in using a rubber spatula. Transfer the mixture to the prepared tin.
To bake
Approx. 20 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 180 °C. Remove from the oven, leave to cool completely on a rack, cut into squares.
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