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Yesterday night was St Martin's day in Germany and I had to bring some food to my children's kindergarten (or nursery). I had a bar of chocolate in my cupboard so decided to bake an easy peasy chocolate cake! I found the recipe on this fantastic French website called Marmiton where people share their recipes. Each recipe comes with a rating and comments from other people who have tried it as well as a picture (but not for every recipe).

For the chocolate fondant, all you need to do is to melt 100g butter and 200g chocolate in the microwave. When melted, add 5 egg yolks.

Add 100g caster sugar and 4 tbsp of white flour and mix well. Then beat the 5 egg whites until stiff and incorporate them to the mixture. My son did this very carefully!

Pour the mixture in a butter greased cake pan and put it in the oven at 180 degres for about 20 minutes (depending if you want the cake to be firm or gooey!). My children loved eating the leftovers of the chocolate mixture ;)

Unfortunatly, I don't have any pictures of the final cake because I completely forgot to take one! But here is the picture from Marmiton:

http://www.marmiton.org/Recettes/Recette-Photo_fondant-au-chocolat_15025.aspx

And here is where we had the cake, around a nice fire :)

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First you need about 140g hazelnuts. I didn't toast them but I finely chopped them in a food processor.

I then added 140g self-raising flour and 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (and I completely forgot to add 140g sugar!).

I whisked 3 egg whites until stiff, then I quickly stirred 140g butter melted, 75ml milk and the 3 egg yolks into the dry ingredients.
When the mixture was smooth, I stirred in one-third of the egg whites, then I gently folded in the rest. My son wanted to give me a hand :)

I poured the mixture into a tin,  and baked it for 40-50 mins until the cake was golden and springy to touch.

Whilst the cake was baking, I prepared the dark chocolate filling. I microwaved 100g dark chocolate with a bit of water and 1 tbsp clear honey and mixed it well to obtain a smooth consistency.
When the cake was out of the oven and had cooled down a bit, I splitted the sponge in half. I gently spooned the chocolate filling over the first half.

To finish, I put the other half of the cake back on top to obtain this delicious torte (even without sugar!).

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The other night I had chocolate left in my cupboard but not much time left to bake a cake in the oven. So I decided to try the microwave version and it wrked out very well. In just 3 minutes time, I had a chocolate pudding. That saved me time and electricity!
Here is the recipe:
Melt 50g plain chocolate (or more if you're a chocolic!) and a bit of a water in the microwave for 45 seconds or more. Leave it to cool.
Then whizz 100g soft butter and 100g sugar in a food processor until pale and fluffy. Mix in 2 eggs one by one. Add the melted chocolate and 100g self-raising flour and pulse until incorporated. Butter a microwavable mould and pour in the mixture. Microwave on high (750-800w) for 3 minutes. It's ready!

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