Gâteau Chocolat

Impress your guests with this decadent Gâteau Chocolat.

📝 Ingredients

• 300 g 70%-cocoa best quality chocolate
• 300 g butter, softened
• 200 g castor sugar
• 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
• 3 eggs
• 350 g ground almonds
• 60 g cornflour

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- Topping ---
2. 2150 g 70%-cocoa best quality chocolate, melted
3. 31 cup (250 ml) cream
4. 4Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Grease a 23 cm loose-bottomed springform baking tin.
5. 5Melt the chocolate in a double boiler.
6. 6Cream the butter and sugar together. Mix in the vanilla extract. Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Gently fold in ground almonds and cornflour, and then melted chocolate, and mix until well combined. Pour mixture into prepared baking tin and bake for 50 minutes. Cool on a rack.
7. 7Remove from the tin and place on a cake plate. Mix the melted chocolate and cream together and spread over the cake. Decorate with chocolate-dipped roses.
8. 8--- Tips ---
9. 9To make chocolate-dipped roses, clean roses and dip them into melted and cooled chocolate. Chill on greased baking paper until set.