---
title: Chocolate Cake
tags: ['chocolate', 'cake', 'coffee']
date: 2022-12-31
author: "segf00lt"
---

![chocolate cake](/pix/chocolate_cake.webp)
This ought to be the default chocolate cake.

- ⏲️ Prep time: 40 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 45 min to 1 hour
- 🍽️ Servings: 12

## Ingredients

- 100g (or 3/4 cup) of Flour
- 150g (or 1/2 cup) of Butter
- 100g (or 3/4 cup) of Cocoa
- 300g (or 1 cup) of Sugar
- 100ml of Coffee
- 6 Eggs
- 2 tea spoons of Baking Powder

## Directions

1. Melt the sugar with the coffee in a Bain Marie
   (a larger pan of water with a smaller pan containing the ingredients inside it).
2. Break the eggs separate yolks from whites in different containers.
3. Melt butter in sugar coffee Bain Marie.
4. Whisk whites 'till they froth.
5. Pour cocoa into Bain Marie and mix well.
6. Preheat the oven (180 &#176;C).
7. Pour the yolks into the Bain Marie, mix well.
8. Pour the mixture in the Bain Marie into the bowl with the whites.
9. Sieve the flour and baking powder into the bowl with the whites.
10. Mix everything in the bowl in a folding manner.
11. Butter the baking pan and pour in the mixture.
12. Leave in oven for 45 min. If after 45 min the cake hasn't come away from the sides
    of the pan leave for another 10 min.
