Chocolate cake and blood plum








Coco covered chocolate cake, chocolate shards, port poached blood plum, port reduction ganache and vanilla creme fraiche.

Chocolate cake

540g chocolate
540g butter
12 eggs
120g flour
250g sugar
40g coco powder
120g port
120g coffee

Melt chocolate, butter, booze and coffee over Bain marie, seive flour and coco and fold into chock mix, beat whites with 1/2 sugar fold into chock mix, beat yolks with other half of sugar and fold into mix cook Bain Marie @ 200 for first 15 min then 180 till finished ???


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