All-time top 20 recipe for 6 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, caster sugar, muscovado sugar, chocolate, golden syrup, egg, vanilla extract, plain flour, baking powder and cocoa powder.
Chocolate brownie cake
Course: Chocolate cake
Servings
10
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Dark Chocolate: 225g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
- Egg: 3 medium eggs, separated
- Caster Sugar: 200g caster sugar
- Plain Flour: 65g plain flour
- Unsalted Butter: 175g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
- Pecan: 50g chopped pecan nuts
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter a 20-25cm cake tin and line with greaseproof paper.
- Place 175g/6oz of the chocolate, plus the butter and sugar in a heavy-based pan and heat gently until melted, stirring occasionally. Leave to cool.
- Whisk the egg yolks into the chocolate mixture, then add the flour, nuts and the remaining chocolate.
- Whisk the egg whites until they form soft peaks, then gently, but thoroughly, fold into the chocolate mixture.
- Pour into the prepared tin and bake in the centre of the oven for about 35-40 mins until crusty on top. Leave to cool, then run a knife around the sides and remove from the tin. Dust with icing sugar and serve warm with custard or ice cream or cold with cream.
