Hamish's Chocolate Cloud Cake

By Chelsea Sugar

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Hamish swears this cake is meant to sink in the middle. Unknowingly we've been making cloud cakes for years! Joking aside this cake is melt in the mouth choco-licious!

Hamish swears this cake is meant to sink in the middle. Unknowingly we've been making cloud cakes for years! Joking aside this cake is melt in the mouth choco-licious!
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10 servings

1 review
Difficulty Easy
Prep time 20 mins
Cooking time 35 mins
Serves
10

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Ingredients

250g dark chocolate
125g soft, unsalted butter
6 eggs (2 whole, 4 separated)
175g Chelsea Caster Sugar
2 Tbsp orange oil/essence
Whipped cream

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 20cm spring form cake tin.
Melt the chocolate – let butter melt in it.
Beat the 2 whole eggs and 4 yolks with 75g of the caster sugar and orange oil/essence. Gently add the chocolate.
In another bowl: Beat 4 egg whites until foamy, add the remaining 100g caster sugar.
Lighten chocolate mixture by mixing in a spoonful of the egg whites, and then fold the rest in.
Bake for 35-40 minutes.
Cool in the tin and fill with whipped cream to serve.

From the TV show Chelsea New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker.

This recipe has not been tested by Chelsea Sugar.