French Chocolate Almond Cake

The foods of France preside over the world's great culinary arts of cooking. From simple potato leek soup, to warm croissants, to exquisite chocolate cake, French food has been known for requiring technical skills and extravagant expensive ingredients. However, for simple chocolate cake, the recipe I will introduce here is excellent and a must-keep recipe to show off to friends or family members.  This recipe does not require much technical skill as does most baking of French food, and the ingredients are very easy and affordable.

Ingredients:
5 oz. dark chocolate
1/3 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs separated
1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup self-rising flour

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°.
Cut a piece of parchment paper to cover a bottom of an 8 inch square cake pan and grease with coconut oil or butter. Set aside.

Chop chocolate and place on a double boiler with simmering water over low heat to melt the chocolate. Let cool.

 

 

Into a stand mixer, add cream, sugar, butter, and coconut oil until fluffy. Beat in egg yolks and continue beating until well combined.  Add cool melted chocolate into egg yolk batter and almond flour.

Using a clean bowl and clean whisk, add egg white into a stand mixer bowl and whisk until stiff. Fold egg white into egg yolk batter, alternating with self-rising flour (the batter is quite difficult but do your best not to deflate the egg white).

 

  Make sure to gently stir enough to produce a homogenous batter. Pour batter the prepared cake pan and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.