Chocolate mousse

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 4 eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 200 g sugar
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 90 g butter
• 200 g dark chocolate, 70%
• 100 g flour
• 50 ml cream
• 50 ml espresso or strong coffee
• powdered sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 45 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 45 minutes

warm chocolate cakes with a liquid center

For the ganache, warm cream and espresso with 1 tablespoon of sugar in a saucepan, then melt 50g of chocolate. Fill an ice cube tray with this mixture and freeze. Typically, there will be more than 6 chocolate ice cubes. For the cake batter, melt the remaining chocolate with the butter in a double boiler. Beat the eggs and egg yolks with the sugar until fluffy. Carefully stir the chocolate-butter mixture into the egg mixture, then add the flour. Let the finished batter rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour. Fill 6 greased 8cm baking cups 2/3 full with batter. Press a chocolate ice cube into the center and seal with batter. Bake the cakes for 20 minutes at 180°C, turn out onto plates, dust with powdered sugar, and serve warm. The center is runny, and combined with vanilla ice cream, this dessert is hard to beat. Alternatively, the ganache can also be made with white chocolate.