Recipe
(for a cake of 20 cm diameter)
Sponge
cake:
Whisk the eggs to make a foam and add the extra yolks , the
sugar and a pinch of salt to obtain a smooth cream. Add slowly
the mixture of flour and chocolate powder to form a dough.
Heat to 30�C the milk and vegetable oil together. Pour fine
and slowly over the previous mass and mix uniformly with the
palette.
Fill the mould with the dough and cook for 20 min. in the
pre-heated oven at 200�C.
After this time prick with a stick to be sure that the sponge
cake is well cooked inside.
Mix
in a pan all ingredients except the chocolate. Boil the mix
stirring continuously and remove from heat.
Add the chocolate powder and stir to thoroughly homogenize the
mixture, taking care of avoiding air incorporation that will
cause bubbles to appear in the surface of the coating.