Dense Chocolate Cake

Prep Time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

200 g dark chocolate 
100 g butter, cubed 
1 vanilla pod 
5 eggs 
1 pinch of salt 
100 g sugar 
150 g California prunes 
3 tbsp. cocoa powder 
Icing sugar for dusting 

Other:
Cake springform baking tin24 cm

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 160° C (convection oven 140° C). Line spring form with baking paper. Chop chocolate. Cut butter into cubes. Place both into a bowl and melt over hot water. Cut vanilla pod in half and scrape out the seeds.

Separate eggs and beat the egg whites, salt and sugar until stiff. Remove chocolate from water, allow to slightly cool, and then stir in the egg yolks.

Stir in prunes, vanilla seeds, and cocoa powder, carefully fold in egg white.

Pour the cake mixture into the springform baking tin and bake for 40 minutes. Allow the cake to cool and serve dusted with icing sugar.

Nutritional Information

Total Servings: 8
Calories per serving: 390