Made as per certain request on my kitchen black board, that read “Jeden ciasto czekoladowe prosze”.  It’s been there for a good few weeks and then an arrow was added, pointing at the word “Prosze”.  After the applicant’s  recent OUTSTANDING performance at work I had to get baking.

The recipe comes from my little Chocolate Cakes booklet. For the sponge I melted 150 g of dark chocolate with a splash of water and a touch of butter, while beating up 150 g of butter with 110 g of caster sugar. Slowly added 3 egg yolks to the butter, then 150 g of plain flour and to finish, the remaining 3 egg whites whipped with 2 tbsp of sugar, nicely folded in. It baked for 30 minutes in about 180 degrees.

When cooled, I sliced the beauty in half and generously spread some apricot jam. The icing’s made of equal amount (125 g) of dark chocolate and butter with my own addition of a good splash of Frangelico. The icing nicely thickens when left alone for a couple of hours.

What’s really nice about this cake is that it’s chocolatey and scrummy, but not not too rich and sickly. Pat, pat. 🙂