Chocolate Cake Recipe (serves 8)

The perfect recipe for chocolate cake little cooking required and amazingly tasty results

Ingredients

Layer a 20cm cake tin with baking parchment (not grease proof as it will stick to the cake)
Melt 230g of the chocolate and all the butter in a pan over a moderate heat
Place the nuts on a baking sheet and toast under a grill until the skin blisters then rub the nuts with a cloth and discard any skin that rubs of and place the nuts under the grill again until they are golden
When the chocolate is fully melted remove it from the heat, now mix in the nuts and the cherries (keep a few for decoration)
Beat the eggs lightly with a fork then add to the chocolate and then
Stir in the crumbled biscuits and then spoon the mix into the cake tin and leave it in the fridge over night to set
Once the cake is completely set melt the remaining chocolate over a bowl of simmering waste and then pour the chocolate over the cake and decorate the cake with the remaining berries