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Gluten Free Chocolate Cake

Recipe Submitted By: bakingmad

This wonderful recipe is from MacMillan's Little book of Treats. Delicious and gluten free, this is chocolate cake at it's best!

150 grams	Chocolate Chunks, 70% cocoa solids
110 grams	Margarine Diced
125 grams	Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar (Billington's)
4	Free Range Eggs (Happy Eggs) Separated, large
50 grams	Gluten Free Flour
1 tsp	Gluten Free Baking Powder
1 tsp	Vanilla Extract (Nielsen Massey)

Serve with:

pinch	Cream Fresh
	Raspberries

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Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas mark 4. Grease and line a round, loose-bottomed 20cm tin.
Place the plain chocolate and margarine into a large bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Heat gently to melt the contents. Stir until the mix has melted then add the golden caster sugar.
Remove from the heat and pour into a bowl with the egg yolks, flour, baking powder and vanilla extract. In another clean, dry bowl beat the egg whites until stiff.
Add the egg white mix one tablespoon at a time and fold into the cake mix. Gradually mix everything together, pour into a cake tin and bake for 50 minutes.
Leave to cool for five minutes before turning out and serving with fresh cream and raspberries.