Name: Halloween chocolate cake with a spiderweb
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 200 g dark baking chocolate; 150 g butter; 150 g sugar; 4 eggs; 60 g flour; For the ganache: 100 g dark chocolate and 100 ml heavy cream; For the web: 50 g white chocolate; A candy spider, or a licorice one (optional)

In short

Makes 8 servings.
30 minutes of prep, 25 minutes of cooking, and 1 hr of resting.
VegetarianMake it with the kids

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The recipe

Steps 7 steps

Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Butter a 22 cm round pan.
Melt the dark chocolate with the butter, in a double boiler or in the microwave in short bursts.
Whisk the eggs with the sugar until the mixture turns pale, then pour in the melted chocolate and add the flour.
Pour into the pan and bake for 25 minutes: the center stays a little wobbly. Let it cool before unmolding.
For the ganache, heat the cream until it simmers, pour it over the chopped dark chocolate, wait a minute and stir until smooth. Spread it over the cake.
Melt the white chocolate and put it in a small freezer bag with one corner snipped off. Pipe a spiral from the center to the edge, on the still-soft ganache.
With the tip of a knife, drag lines from the center to the edge, every 3 to 4 cm: the web appears. Add the spider, and let it set in the fridge for an hour.