GATHER & MEASURE

Ingredients

For the cake

For the icing

Chocolate, butter, separated eggs, sugars, breadcrumbs, flour, ground almonds and cocoa arranged for baking

Keep the butter portions separate: 225 g goes into the cake; 130 g goes into the icing. The same applies to the two caster-sugar quantities.

FROM PREP TO FINISH

Make it, step by step

  1. Egg yolk being stirred into the chocolate butter mixture

    Build the chocolate base

    Heat the oven to 160°C (320°F). Grease and line a 24 cm round cake tin.

    Gently melt the dark chocolate in a heat-safe bowl over simmering water, then cool slightly. Cream the cake’s 225 g cannabutter with 345 g caster sugar until lighter and softened.

    Beat in the six egg yolks, followed by the cooled chocolate and vanilla.

  2. Whipped egg whites being folded into dark chocolate batter with a spatula

    Fold for a lighter crumb

    Fold the soft white breadcrumbs, plain flour and ground almonds into the chocolate mixture.

    In a clean bowl, beat the six egg whites with the extra pinch of caster sugar until stiff but not dry.

    Gently fold the whites into the chocolate batter in additions, keeping as much air as possible. Use a spatula rather than vigorously beating the mixture.

  3. Chocolate batter spread in a parchment-lined round cake tin before baking

    Fill the tin & bake

    Spread the batter evenly in the prepared tin.

    Bake for about one hour, checking that the center is set and a skewer does not bring out wet batter. The bake time and finished texture are not test-verified; use the cake’s condition rather than the clock alone. Cool completely before icing.

  4. Cocoa icing being spread over a cooled single-layer chocolate cake

    Cool, ice & portion

    Sift the cocoa and icing sugar into a bowl. Gently warm the icing’s separate 130 g cannabutter with the water and 170 g caster sugar until dissolved; avoid scorching.

    Stir the warm liquid into the cocoa mixture until spreadable. Spread over the cooled cake, then cut into clearly labeled portions. THC strength per slice is unknown unless the butter potency and portion quantities are known.