Magic Cake - Chocolate

By kelseyll

The origin of this cake is from Romania, and the actual name of the cake is intelligent cake because of how it separates into 3 layers.

I baked it for exactly 60 minutes but I think I could have baked it for another 10 min. Some readers were saying that their magic cake was done after 45 minutes or so, so I want to stress again that the baking time can vary drastically based on the oven, each oven is different, so you really have to watch it and when it looks done you remove it from the oven and let it cool. I’ve seen many versions of this cake and it seems like for a lot of people the top layer which is the cake layer ends up being very thin, this layer should be nice and airy, just like a normal cake, not thin and condensed.

Ingredients

• 4 eggs, at room temperature and separated
• 1 tbsp water
• 3/4 cup sugar (150 g)
• 1 stick of butter (125 g), melted
• 6.5 tbsp all purpose flour (65 g)
• 6 tbsp cocoa powder (50 g)
• 2 cups milk (500 ml), warmed up
• pinch of salt
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp vinegar

Details

Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 80mins
Adapted from jocooks.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 F degrees. Grease and flour an 8×8 inch baking pan.
Separate the eggs and add the egg yolks to the bowl of a mixer. Add a tbsp of water to the egg yolks and add the sugar. Beat this at high until eggs are light and creamy.
Add melted butter, vanilla extract and salt to mixer and continue beating until butter is fully incorporated and mixture is light and fluffy.
You can mix the cocoa and flour together and add to the mixing bowl in batches, 3 times should be enough. After each addition mix thoroughly.
Once flour and cocoa powder has been mixed in, add the milk a bit at a time and mix. The milk should be warm so not to cool the butter. Make sure the milk has been mixed in thoroughly, the mixture should be pretty liquidy, so don’t get scared.
Clean the mixing bowl and whisk attachment and make sure you dry it out. Add egg whites to mixing bowl and the vinegar and mix until egg whites are stiff.
Add a bit of the egg whites to the chocolate mixture and gently fold in. Next you’re going to reverse and add a bit of the chocolate mixture to the egg whites. This way it will be easier to mix everything together. Repeat until everything is well mixed and the mixture should be thin like a pancake batter.
Pour the batter in the prepared baking dish and bake for roughly 60 minutes or until done. The cake will still jiggle in the middle when you take it out, so that’s normal. Let it cool completely then cut into squares and serve.