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Chocolate Gateau

Chocolate Gateau

A France dessert. Ready in about 1 hour 25 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

  • 9 oz semisweet chocolate Shopping tip: Semisweet chocolate (UK: plain chocolate).
  • 6 oz butter
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 5 eggs
  • 6 oz granulated sugar
  • 4 oz flour

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. Turn the oven on to 350°F 350°/350°F.

  2. Grease plus line your base of 8 in round spring form cake tin using baking parchment.

  3. Break the chocolate into a heatproof bowl.

  4. Place over a pot of simmering water.

  5. Stir until it melts.

  6. (or melt in your microwave for 2-3 mins stirring every so often).

  7. Place your butter plus sugar in a mixing bowl plus cream together with a wooden spoon till light and fluffy.

  8. Gradually beat in your eggs, adding a little flour if the mix begins to curdle.

  9. Fold in the remaining flour with milk, melted chocolate and the cooled.

  10. Mix until smooth.

  11. Spread the mixture into the cake tin.

  12. Bake for 50-55 mins till firm in your centre and a skewer comes out cleanly.

  13. Cool for 10 minutes.

  14. Turn out and cool completely.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.