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Chocolate Almond Cake Gluten Free light and fluffy

This is a light chocolate cake you will not even suspect is a gluten free

Servings: 10
Course: Others
Cuisine: gluten-free

Ingredients

  • 250 gm dark chocolate
  • 100 gm butter unsalted chopped
  • 125 ml strong coffee
  • 6 whole eggs separated
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 115 gm caster sugar
  • 200 gm ground almonds
  • 1 Tablespoon caster sugar extra

Instructions

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  1. Pre heat the oven to 180 C / 350 F. Grease and line a 20 to 23 cm / 9 or 10 inch cake tin.
  2. Put the chocolate, butter, coffee and vanilla into a saucepan and melt on low until combined. Cool to luke warm.
  3. Put the egg yolks and sugar into a bowl and beat until light and creamy, gradually add the chocolate mixture. Fold through the ground almonds.
  4. Using clean beaters and bowl beat the whites until soft peaks form , add extra sugar and beat well
  5. Fold the whites through the chocolate mixture
  6. Bake 40-45 minutes. Test with a skewer , to make sure it comes out clean
  7. This can be simply sprinkled with icing sugar or make a chocolate ganache to go on top.