French Chocolate Cake

from Lesley the chalet host in Alp d'Huez

Ingredients
9.5" round tin

150g caster sugar
275g plain choc
175g butter
2tsp vanilla
5eggs - seperated
40g flour
Salt
Icing sugar
Oven 160°C

Grease and sugar a cake tin.

Melt the choc with 100g sugar and the butter.
Take off heat and add vanilla.
Whisk in the egg yolks.
Whisk in the flour.
Whisk whites and salt to soft peaks, add rest of sugar and fold in to the mix.
Bake 20-30 mins.

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