Samin Nosrat's Chocolate Midnight Cake recipe | HotCooking

Ingredients

• 55g good quality cocoa powder (plus 1-2 tsp for dusting)
• 300g sugar
• 1 tsp fine sea salt
• 255g plain flour (or self-raising, see update)
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 125ml neutral-tasting oil (plus extra to grease. I use light olive oil or sunflower oil)
• 350ml freshly brewed strong coffee or boiling water
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 225ml double cream
• 1½ tsp icing sugar, sifted (or sugar)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract (or seeds scraped from ¼ of a vanilla bean)
• dark chocolate (optional, for grating or shaving)
• 150ml double cream
• 150g dark chocolate (I use 70% cocoa)
• 125ml double cream
• 125g dark chocolate