Willie's Yummy 'out of this world' Chocolate Cake

Meet Willie my new Chocolate Hero!

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http://www.williescacao.com/cookbook/

 

Willie Harcourt-Couze is on a mission to educate the public in the delights of using top quality cacao/chocolate.

Passionate about growing, harvesting and processing his own cacao beans, and turning his chocolate dream into a reality when he took his family to the wilds of Venezuela, where Willie learnt to be a cacao farmer, and then back to the rolling hills of Devon, where they built a small chocolate factory and now make 100% Supreme Cacao and Delectable eating chocolate.

Willie's cloud forest chocolate cake made with 100 per cent cacao tastes out of this world.

I'm trying to find a better picture of this amazing chocolate cake, made with pure Cacao, but until I do...

here's Willie's (now famous) recipe....

Makes 1 x 25cm cake

Ingredients

• 180g cacao, finely grated
• 250g unsalted butter
• 125g golden caster sugar
• 50g light muscovado sugar
• 6 eggs
• 100g ground almonds

Method: How to make cloud forest chocolate cake

1. Preheat oven to 160ºC. Line a 25cm spring-formed cake tin with baking paper.
2. Melt the cacao and butter by placing them, along with half the caster sugar and all of the muscovado sugar in a large heat-proof bowl. Sit the bowl over a pan of simmering water.
3. Meanwhile, beat the eggs with the remaining caster sugar until they have tripled in size.
4. When the cacao and butter has melted, add the almonds and stir to combine.
5. Gradually fold the cacao mixture into the eggs. Tip the cake mix into the prepared tin.
6. Bake for 25 minutes, then leave to cool in the tin.
7. The cake can be iced by heating 500ml double cream with 150g caster sugar. Stir in 180g grated cacao, leave to cool and spread over the cake.


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