Recipe posted by Scuffiania - Translation by Scuffiania - Go to italian recipe
This is the most typical cake of the city where I live, Ferrara, taken from my mother-in-law favourite recipes. It's super easy. Its characteristic is a low thickness (12mm/half inch) and a creamy-soft core.
- 100 g butter
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 200 g caster sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 tblspoon flour
- vanilla extract
- butter and flour for sprinkling the pan
Break chocolate into pieces and melt it in a double saucepan or in the microwave. Add butter in small pieces, mix until it melts and then let it cool down. Whisk egg yolks with sugar to a light froth. Mix together chocolate (make sure it's cool or at least lukewarm), flour and vanilla; whisk egg whites until stiff and add them to the chocolate mixing slowly. Butter and flour a 28mm-baking pan to avoid cake sticking: you should have a 10-15mm thick cake in the pan. Bake in oven, previously heated to 200°C for 18/20 minutes (reduce to 180°C for convection oven). Remove the cake from oven, let it cool down a bit, then reverse it on the serving plate and spread it with powder sugar.