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Dense baked chocolate

By Abigail Donnelly
15
Easy
20 minutes
30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 300 g dark chocolate
  • 115 g butter
  • 150 g sugar
  • 6 cardamom pods, seeds removed and crushed
  • 3 free-range eggs
  • 1 t vanilla extract
  • Cocoa, for dusting

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C. Melt the chocolate and butter in a double-boiler until completely melted and smooth.

Beat the sugar, cardamom, eggs and vanilla into the mixture.

Grease a 20 cm springform tin and dust with cocoa. Pour in the batter and bake for 30 minutes, or until a skewer comes out with large crumbs attached to it when inserted.

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