Chocolate Nemisis Jamie style!!!

I went to see Jamie Oliver two weeks ago at Hisense Arena in Melbourne. He made a delicious looking chocolate cake that he kept singing about smugly called 'Chocolate Nemisis'. He put the whole tray into the crowd and I laughed to see grown adult woman literally pulling handfuls of it and stuffing it in their mouths like animals.

I was at the back and thought 'I want to try it!' So there is nothing else to do but bake it myself!!! :-)

The recipe book for the live show unfortunately didn't contain the recipe so I got one off the net and it is:

Ingredients:

- 340 grams of 70% dark chocolate
- 5 eggs
- 290 grams Caster Sugar
-225 grams of unsalted butter


Method:

Preheat oven to 120C.
Butter a 18 cm round cake tin (not springform) and line the bottom with baking paper.

Melt the chocolate with the butter in a bowl set over simmering water. While it's melting, heat 190grams of the sugar with 125ml of water in a small pan and let it boil for a minute or so until it forms a light syrup. Pour the hot syrup into the melted chocolate and cool slightly.

While it's cooling beat the eggs with the remaining 100g of sugar until quadrupled in volume. (About 6 minutes if you are using hand mixers) Add the chocolate to the eggs and beat slowly until combined. Pour into the prepared tin. Put a folded teatowel in the bottom of a deep baking tray and enough hot water to come 3/4 of the way up the tin. Bake for 50 minutes or until set. Leave the cake to cool in the water before refrigerating.

Refridgerate the cake to ensure it goes hard then bring to room temp before you serve it with a big dollop of cream!! :-)