Chocolate torte
My neighbour kindly gave me this delicious chocolate torte recipe a few years ago and it's become one of my go to desserts. It's rich and indulgent, and goes beautifully with sharp raspberries and silky cream.
80g dark cooking chocolate
90g butter
150g caster sugar
45g self-raising flour
15g cocoa powder
3 eggs
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
- Remove the butter from the fridge and cut into 1cm dice.
- Mix together the sugar, flour and eggs until well combined.
- Stir the cocoa into the mixture.
- Break up the chocolate into pieces and place in a heatproof bowl.
- Put the bowl over a small pan of boiling water. Stir the chocolate until it has melted.
- Remove the bowl from the heat and stir in the cubes of butter, a few at a time until the butter has melted.
- Add the chocolate and butter mix to the other ingredients, and mix for 5 minutes using an electric mixer.
- Line and butter a 20cm cake tin.
- Once the mixture is ready, pour into the buttered tin and cook in the hot oven for 20 minutes.
