So, we’ve all read Matilda.. or at the very least seen the film. And we all remember the chocolate cake.. yes.. that one.. the one that Bruce Bogtrotter has to eat all of.

So on finding the recipe for the cake, as it is in Roald Dahl’s ‘Revolting Recipes’ I just have to try it out.

Preheat the oven to 180C

Melt 225g dark chocolate with 170g butter

Stir in 4tbsp flour, 6 egg yolks and 225g icing sugar

Beat the egg whites and fold in

Bake for ~35 minutes.

While it’s cooking melt 200g dark chocolate into 200g double cream, put in the fridge to cool a little.

When the ganache is semi set (still pretty sort is good) cover the cake with it, if you want, split the cake and put some in the centre too.

I added some Cherry Bounce (see the truffles) for extra flavour.

Enjoy.. (one small bit at a time)

As you can see we broke it taking it out the pan.. We didn’t leave it to cool it smelt so good. If you leave it to cool it’ll come out nicely. We were definitely going for taste rather than looks with this one (though it wouldn’t be too hard to get it to look good.. we were just impatient), but warm cake, with the ganache still warm… *drools* Absolutely divine!