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simply break up with a fork
(no olives for little mouths).
Quick chocolate torte
Smooth, chocolatey, quick, easy
and delicious. Fay says anyone can
make this great pudding.
If you need to "dress it up a bit"
before serving, a dusting of cocoa
or icing sugar should do the trick.
Serves: 8
Ingredients
200g butter, cubed
200g dark chocolate, broken up
6 large eggs, separated
200g caster sugar
Cocoa powder for dusting
A 24cm loose-bottomed cake tin
Heat the oven to 180C (fan)/
200C/gas mark 6. Grease the sides
of the tin and line the base with
baking parchment.
Melt the butter and chocolate in
a glass or metal bowl over gently
bubbling water. Leave to cool.
Beat the egg yolks and sugar
together for a couple of minutes
until smooth, then add to the
chocolate mix. Combine.
Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks
and place half into the
chocolate/egg mix. Fold gently till
combined, then do
the same with the
remaining egg
whites.
Pour into the tin
and bake in the
middle of the oven
on a tray for 45
minutes, or until the
centre of the cake
feels just set.
Leave it to cool.
(It will sink a little,
but don't panic.)
When cool, run a
knife around the
sides and turn out.
Before serving,
dust with cocoa.
Great with berries
and thick whipped cream. It keeps
well in an airtight container for up
to three days.
Fay's Family Food, by Fay
Ripley, is out now, and is
published in hardback by Penguin,
priced �20.
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