Add some berries to delicious chocolate cake

I think that you may have already noticed that chocolate is one of my favorite ingredients This summer when I visited my family in Latvia, I went to a new restaurant in Jurmala called ¨Legend¨. This is a special place not only because my cousins’s husband, Janis Zvirbulis, is a chef there, but also because the food is delicious. Unfortunately I couldn’t try everything I wanted (yet!), but there is this one dessert that I still have dreams about: a chocolate cake with cream and blueberries on top. Wonderful combinations! I didn’t get the secret recipe but I’ve created my own version of a chocolate cake with blueberries and ice-cream.

Yield: 8 portions Ingredients:

• 200g of dark chocolate
• 60g unsalted butter
• 100ml cream
• 6 eggs
• 150g sugar
• a little bit of salt
• one tea spoon vanilla sugar
• 1 spoon of cacao powder
• some blueberries, icing sugar and ice cream for decoration

Step by step:

• Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
• Prepare your pan: grease your pan and line it with parchment paper.
• Cut the butter and dark chocolate into cubes and place both into a medium bowl together with the cream. Place the bowl over a saucepan filled with hot water.

• Put over a low heat until the butter and chocolate have melted, stirring occasionally to mix them. Once melted, remove the bowl from the saucepan and leave the melted mixture to cool down to room temperature.

• While the chocolate-butter mixture cools down, take the eggs and mix them with sugar, vanilla sugar and salt. Beat the eggs with the help of an electric mixer until they are frothy and double in volume.

• Add to the egg-mixture the melted chocolate-butter mixture. Mix them well together and add cacao powder at the end. I’ve used the electronic mixer to get a smooth consistency.

• Once your mixture is ready, pour it into the prepared cake pan.

• Bake for about 30min until the top is hard and the sides pull away from the edge of your pan but the middle might still be jiggly and soft.

• Cool down the cake for about an hour and then put it in the fridge for another hour. I prefer to serve it cold decorated with blueberries, icing sugar and with a side of ice cream.

Enjoy!