Ingredients

How to make it

  • -- so...for the cake --
  • put on some music that makes you relaxed and happy
  • wash your hands
  • preheat the oven to 175 c
  • grease 2 round cake tins
  • in a double boiler melt the chocolate with a fair glug of cream and from then on water until its smooth and creamy and melted. set aside.
  • whisk the egg yolks up with the vanilla and roughly half the castor sugar in a saucepan over a low heat until it becomes all like a glossy custard. then beat that into the chocolate. then set it aside.
  • beat the egg whites in a bowl until soft peaks form, then add the remaining castor sugar to that tablespoon by tablespoon until its all gone and your meringue is thick and glossy. set aside.
  • combine the sifted together cornflour, flour, cocoa and baking powder to the chocolate-custard, then gently fold (with a metal spoon) the meringue into that until its all blended together nicely. add more cream if its too thick.
  • pour the mixture into your two tins and pop them in the oven for 40-50 minutes, or until a metal skewer comes out not-sticky when inserted into the cake. because they shouldn't be dry all the way through, but nor should the mixture still be gooey.
  • -- NOTE -- a sugary crust forms on top of the cake fairly quickly whilst cooking, but this doesn't mean its done. turn the oven down if the top cooks too quickly.
  • -- whip up your filling while that cooks --
  • when they're done, take them out of the oven and leave them to stand in the tins for 10ish minutes on a damp cloth
  • then take them out of the tins and leave them on a rack until they're quite cool
  • then sandwich em together with the cream and fruit, and then ice and decorate
  • -- for the icing --
  • melt the nutella with the chocolate and add enough cream to get and icingish consistency and slather generously over cake. garnish as you like.
  • PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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    Yes it is ridiculously rich,but does it sound nice.......
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