This chocolate cake is very special to me.  Why is it so special, you may ask?  Well, chiefly because this is the very first cake I ever made. And also because it’s the first recipe I ever tried from a food blog, which coincidentally happened to be the first food blog I ever visited, which, in turn, inspired me to start Kitchen Crush.  And finally, because I strongly suspect that my husband married me in order to have constant access to this cake (since it’s so totally, unbelievingly delicious in its melt-in-your-mouth, chocolaty goodness).  So, you see, if it wasn’t for this grand master of all chocolate cakes, I would be a blogless old maid, with a mustache and thirteen cats, and with no chocolate cake to make me feel better.  It’s the truest of all truths, if you learn to make this cake, good things will happen to you.

Ingredients:

200g dark chocolate, 70% cacao
200g butter
250g sugar
5 eggs
1Tbs of flour

Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F).  Melt the chocolate and the butter in a bowl, sitting over a pot of simmering water (bain marie/double boiler).  Once melted, add the sugar and mix thoroughly.  Take off the heat and let cool a little.  Put in the eggs, one by one, and make sure to thoroughly mix them in.  Add a Tbs of flour and mix till smooth.  Line a small (15cm/8in), round baking form with baking paper and pour the chocolate mass in.  Bake for 25 minutes, then take it out of the oven and let it cool.  The center may look a bit wobbly, but it is supposed to look this way.  Put it in the fridge for at least 2 hours to let it set and take out of the fridge 30 minutes before serving. Serve with whipped cream and raspberries, and let this magic cake change your life for better.

Servings/Calories:  countless, but it doesn’t matter because they are life-changing calories (life-changing in a good way, of course)

Adapted from: Chocolate by Trish Deseine

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