Name: Chocolate cake
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Ukrainian
Ingredients: bitter chocolate - 350 g; Sugar - 300 g; Chicken egg - 5 pcs.; Butter cookies - 100 g; Butter 60% - 225 g

Break the chocolate into small pieces, place in a heatproof bowl and melt in a water bath. Add butter and stir until smooth. Break the cookies into small pieces.

Beat the eggs with a mixer with sugar into a thick, homogeneous mass for about 5 minutes. Pour the melted chocolate into the egg mixture and stir gently.

Add cookie pieces and stir. Pour the mixture into a springform pan lined with oiled parchment. Place the mold in an oven preheated to 160°C. Bake for 45 minutes.

Chocolate cake

Ukrainian

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Chocolate cake

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