Decadence Noire

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 350 g dark chocolate
• 1 1/2 cups butter, cubed
• 1 cup strong coffee
• 1 1/3 cups black rum
• 2 1/4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs, slightlu beaten
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• butter, for greasing the pan
• cacao, for dusting the pan

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat the oven at 150°C.

2. 2

   Butter very good a 3lt cake pan.

3. 3

   Dust the pan with cacao powder. Remove any extra cacao powder.

4. 4

   Sift the flour, the baking powder and the salt.

5. 5

   Melt the chocolate with the butter, mixing.

6. 6

   Remove from heat and add the rum, the coffee and the sugar mixing well.

7. 7

   Using an electric mixer add slowly the flour and then the eggs and then the vanilla.

8. 8

   Pour the mixture in the cake pan and bake for 1 hour and 50 minutes.