The Best French Chocolate Cake Recipe In The World
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- 25 Feb 2022
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Here is the best French chocolate cake recipe in the world! This is what said the renowned pastry chef Pierre Hermé when he first tasted this chocolate cake recipe created by his good friend and cookbook author Suzy Palatin. This chocolate cake (“gâteau au chocolat” in French) also goes by the name “Suzy’s cake” in a nod to the driving inspiration behind the original recipe. It’s really one of the best French chocolate cake recipes ever! And it’s basically my go-to chocolate cake for any occasion.
This recipe is very easy to do: you don’t need many kitchen tools, it has only five ingredients (chocolate, butter, sugar, flour, and eggs), and it’s very easy to remember. In the end, you should get a dense, fudgy chocolate cake, moist in texture and topped with a thin crispy crust. You can serve it with a simple dusting of powdered sugar or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Tips For Making The Best French Chocolate Cake
- Use a high quality dark chocolate with a cocoa content between 60% and 70%. In France we use a “chocolat pâtissier” for this kind of recipe.
- In the original recipe, Suzy uses unsalted butter, but if you prefer you can use salted butter as well.
- Also, you can use a mixture of different types of sugar: 1/3 white, 1/3 cassonade, and 1/3 muscovado sugar.
- Make sure you follow the order in which the ingredients are added, otherwise you will not get the same cake.
- This cake is a “mi-cuit”, a fudgy almost lava cake. So the cake is still a bit delicate when removed from the oven. Make sure to let the cake cool down to room temperature before inverting the cake out onto a serving plate.
- Note that the proportions work for a 24/25 cm cake pan. Prefer a silicone pan in order to facilitate the removal of the cake after baking.
PREP TIME: 10 mins
COOK TIME: 30 mins
TOTAL TIME: 40 mins
SERVINGS: 6 people
INGREDIENTS
- 250 g 70% or 60% cacao dark chocolate
- 250 g butter (salted or unsalted)
- 250 g sugar
- 70 g flour
- 4 eggs
