Simple Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• 300 g butter
• 200 g raw cane sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 tsp orange zest
• 6 Eggs
• 250 g whole wheat flour
• 250 g type 405 wheat flour
• 60 g ground almonds
• 50 g cocoa powder
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 200 ml Milk (3.5% fat)
• 150 g dark chocolate couverture (60% cocoa content)
• 2 tbsp clarified butter
• 30 g milk chocolate shavings (40% cocoa content)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Cream the butter with sugar, salt and orange zest. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Mix the flours with almonds, cocoa and baking powder. Alternately fold in the milk into the egg mixture.

2. 2.

   Pour the batter into the pan. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (160 °C fan; gas: level 2–3) for about 60 minutes. Test with a skewer, remove from the oven, let cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

3. 3.

   Chop the dark chocolate into small pieces and melt over a hot water bath. Stir in the clarified butter. Spread the chocolate over the cake and garnish with chocolate shavings before serving.