"Chocolate Dump Cake (Uncle Henry’s Favorite)

By RoketJSquerl

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 2 squares (2 oz / 60 g) good quality chocolate (Valrhona recommended)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 Tbsp cocoa powder (Valrhona recommended)
• 1/2 tsp sea or kosher salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• For the garnish: (optional)
• 1/2 About 1/2 Tbsp powdered sugar
• 1-2 tsp chocolate shavings

Details

Servings 8
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 50mins
Adapted from ifoodblogger.com

Preparation

Step 1

Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350F.
Cream butter and sugar. Add the melted chocolate, egg yolks and beat well.
Stir in dry ingredients and milk alternately.
In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks are formed. Fold into the batter.
Dump into a greased 9" spring form and bake for about 40 minutes, or until a stick inserted into the center of the cake comes out dry.
Let the cake cool slightly, garnish with powdered sugar and chocolate shavings (optionally), and serve.

Instructions