CHOCOLATE DESSERT: Chocolate lovers should be delighted with this dessert which is rich and yummy.

CHOLOLATE MUD CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE SAUCE:

 

 

 

cake:

    9 oz. butter, cut into small cubes                                        

    10 ½ oz semi-sweet chocolate

    5 eggs, separated                                         

    2 tbsp. sugar

    3 tbsp. sifted self-raising flour                    

chocolate sauce:

    7 oz. semi-sweet chocolate pieces              

    2 ½ oz. unsalted butter

    ¼ to ½ cup sugar                                         

    ¼ cup milk

    4 tbsp. shifted cocoa powder                                  

    ¼ cup whipping cream

1 ½ cups of blueberries and raspberries                      

icing sugar & sweetened whipped cream

 

 

 

Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Grease an 8-inch spring-form pan and line it with wax paper.

 

Place butter and chocolate in a large bowl set over a pot of simmering water. Stir together until melted and smooth. Beat egg yolks and sugar into chocolate mixture; then fold in sifted flour.

 

In a large bowl, beat egg whites until stiff and fold gently into chocolate mixture. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 1¼ hours, or until tested done with a toothpick. Turn off oven and cool cake in oven with door ajar. Remove from over and cut into serving wedges.

 

To make sauce:  Place chocolate and butter in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir mixture until melted; then add sugar to taste. Add cocoa powder, milk and cream. Keep mixture hot for 5 minutes, stirring well to combine; then remove bowl from pan.

Decorate serving plate with chocolate sauce. Arrange a wedge of cake on the chocolate sauce and top cake with a mixture of blueberries and raspberries; then dust with sifted icing sugar. Serve cake with a dollop of whipped cream