250g dark chocolate
125g butter
3/4 cup castor sugar
6 XL eggs (separated)
1/2 t vanilla
3/4 cup cake flour
1 T cocoa
1/4 t bicarb of soda
1/4 t cream of tartar
- Heat oven to 160 deg C
- Line a deep cake pan with paper
- Melt chocolate in microwave
- Cream butter and sugar together well
- Beat in 5 of egg yolks and vanilla to chocolate (keep extra egg yolk for glaze)
- Sift flour, cocoa and bicarb and mix with chocolate
- Beat egg whites with cream of tartar until soft peaks
- Fold into chocolate mixture
- Pour into pan and bake for 60-70 mins (cupcakes 30mins)
- Make glaze and pour over warm cake
