Mega Chocolate Fudge Cake (dessert party part I)

(Recipe by Jamie Oliver)

7 oz good-quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
  3/4 c butter, plus extra for greasing
  2/3 c soft brown sugar
  2/3 c blanched almonds
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
a pinch of salt
4 large organic free range eggs

  1 1/3 c self-raising flour
  1/4 lb fudge
crème fraîche or vanilla ice cream

 To make your cake
• Preheat the oven to 325 F

 • Break up the chocolate, put it into a food processor with the butter, sugar, almonds, 1 tablespoon of the cocoa powder and the salt, and whiz until smooth

• Crack your eggs, one at a time, into the food processor and add the flour

• Whiz again until smooth

To bake your cake

• Get a deep baking dish roughly 25 x 25cm in size

• Butter the dish really well and sprinkle the remaining tablespoon of cocoa powder over it

• Shake it around a bit so it lightly coats the whole surface of the dish

• Pour the cake mixture into the dish, using a spatula to scrape it all out of the processor

• Break the fudge into pieces and sprinkle these over the top of the cake mix, pushing any larger pieces down into the mixture

• Pop the baking dish into the preheated oven and cook for 18 to 20 minutes

• Take the cake out of the oven and stick a fork into the middle of it

• If there’s a little bit of cake mixture on the fork when you pull it out, that’s okay – you want the cake to still be a little moist inside so that it’s nice and squidgy

• However, if it seems a bit wobbly, pop it back into the oven for another 3 to 5 minutes to firm up a bit

To serve your cake

• Let your cake cool slightly and serve it warm and gooey

• Lovely with a dollop of crème fraîche, a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a bit of double cream