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*WARNING*
This is an incredibly delicious recipe!

Ok, so I know I am meant to be losing a few pounds but we had a dinner party on Saturday for a couple of friends and this is the desert I served! I'm good the rest of the week I promise.
(The above picture was taken a while ago though as I forgot to take a photo on Saturday! In this photo I topped the cake with chocolate shavings!)

It is a Green & Blacks recipe and is just sooooooo divine, and will certainly impress everyone who tries it!

Ok, so here is the recipe ...

Dark Chocolate Mousse Cake

Description:
This rich, dense chocolate cake is incredibly easy to make but will always impress.
It can be served with whipped cream, creme fraiche, Green & Black's Organic Vanilla ice cream or simply on its own sliced into small fingers with coffee.
It can also be made with Green & Black's Dark, Milk, White and Maya chocolates either on their own or in a combination.
If it is made the day before and then chilled over night it becomes even more dense, fudgey and wicked. The lack of flour in the recipe also makes it suitable for coeliacs.


Ingredients:

Use: 20cm or 23cm (8in or 9in) cake tin with removable base or similar-sized tart tin
3 x 100g Bars Green & Black's Dark 70% Chocolate
275g Caster Sugar
165g Unsalted Butter
Pinch of Sea Salt
5 Large Free Range Eggs
Icing Sugar
1 Tablespoon Ground Almonds plus extra for dusting the tin

Instruction:

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4.
Butter and dust a cake tin with a removable base.
Put the first 4 ingredients in a bowl over barely simmering water and allow to melt.
Whisk the eggs with the ground almonds and then fold into the chocolate mixture with a spatula off the heat.
Pour into the cake tin and bake for between 35 and 40 minutes.
Allow to cool, and dust with icing sugar.

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So that's it, it is really easy to make, and if you eat it straight away or a short while afterwards all the gooey inside ooozes out when you cut into it, but if you leave it overnight it is just so scrummy it is unbelievable!
I have made with with all dark chocolate but this is just too rich for me so I tend to use a mixture of milk & dark chocolate now! We also serve it with mascapone, a strange combo some may think we have found it to be an ideal partner although very very naughty!
*Enjoy*