Chocolate cake
Recipe by Brankica Skec from Zagreb, Croatia
Ingredients
- 8 eggs
- 150g sugar
- 600g chocolate
- 1/2 baking powder
- olive oil
- 0.5l whipped cream
- 200g sour cherries (optional)
- margarine
Instructions
Biscuit
- melt 300g chocolate over a pot of water
- mix 8 egg yolk with 150g sugar
- add 1 Tbsp of olive oil
- add melted chocolate
- mix all together
- in another bowl mix egg whites until they are fluffy
- add fluffy egg whites to the chocolate mix
- gently fold it together so that you don't break bubbles
Baking
- To your baking dish add baking paper
- cover edges with margarine
- pour in the mixture
- preheat the oven to 180 C
- bake up to 45 min
- it's done when toothpick test comes clean
Cream
- add 300g chocolate and whipped cream together
- melt it over a pot of water
- stir slowly until evenly melted
- put it into a fridge to cool down (1h)
- (optional) mix in some sour cherries
Assembly
- pour onto baked biscuit
- let it further cool down (ideally overnight)