1 dessertspoon melted butter, for greasing tin
150g dark chocolate, chopped
125g butter
150g caster sugar
3 eggs, lightly beaten
55g plain flour or ground almonds
Chocolate glaze:
110g dark chocolate, chopped
2tbsp milk
45g butter
- Preheat oven to 160oc/325of/gas mark 3
- Butter sides of 8-inch cake tin, and line bottom with parchment paper
- Melt chocolate, butter and sugar
- Stir until smooth and then fold in beaten eggs and then the flour (sieved)
- Pour into cake tin and bake for 40-50 minutes – it won’t rise much
- Cool in tin
- Melt chocolate glaze ingredients and stir until smooth
- Allow to cool a little (10 minutes)
- Place cake on plate and pour glaze over
