French Chocolate Cake (Gateau au Chocolat)

Baking and Desserts | French cuisine

⏳ Time

2 hours

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

French Chocolate Cake (Gateau au Chocolat)

Ingredients

Bitter - 9.9 oz
Vanillin - 2 teaspoons
Sugar - ½ cup
Wheat Flour - 2½ cups
Butter - 3.5 oz
Chocolate eggs - 5 pieces
Salt - a pinch
Lemon - ½ piece
Powdered Sugar - to taste
Fresh Berries - 17.6 oz

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Fruit Sauce. Place the berries (of your choice) in a saucepan with 0.5 cup of sugar and heat, stirring occasionally with a wooden spatula. When the mixture starts to boil, keep it on the heat for another 10 minutes. Transfer this mixture to a blender and blend until smooth. Let it cool completely, then squeeze in the lemon juice.

Step 2

Grease the cake pan with butter and sprinkle with sugar. Set aside 3 tablespoons of sugar. Place the chocolate, butter, and remaining sugar in a saucepan and cook over low heat until the chocolate and butter melt and the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat. Add the vanillin and mix until smooth. Let it cool. Gradually beat in the egg yolks and flour into the chocolate mixture.

Step 3

In a clean bowl, whip the egg whites. Add a pinch of salt and continue whipping until soft peaks form. Gradually add the remaining 3 tablespoons of sugar and whip again. First, fold in 1/3 of the whipped egg whites into the chocolate batter, then gently fold in the rest. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.

Step 4

Preheat the oven to 329°F. Bake for 35–45 minutes (if the cake rises unevenly, flip it after 20–25 minutes). Remove the cake from the pan, dust with powdered sugar, and serve with the fruit sauce.