Chocolate Cake – Japanese Style

This is a kind of pound cake as it is baked in a pound cake container. It looks like a chocolate cake but it contains a lot of “anko” (sweet beans paste). You can bake it as a plain cake or you can add sweet beans. I baked two cakes at the same time using small pound-cake containers. One for plain, and one for with sweet beans. Please purchase any sweet beans (ama-natto) at supermarkets.

Ingredients (for 15cm pound cake container x 2)
Chocolate　　　　　　　　100g
Anko (sweet beans paste)　220g
Butter　　　　　　　　　　50g
Rice powder　　　　　　　40g
Egg　　　　　　　　　　　3pcs
Sugar　　　　　　　　　　15g
Ama-natto　　　　　　　　100g (for 1 container)

How to cook
1. Beat eggs with sugar until eggs become white and fine bubbles. It may take more than 5 minutes.
2. Melt chocolate and butter together over a hot water.
3. Mix anko and melted chocolate and butter.
4. Add 1/3 of well beaten eggs into the bowl of 3. Mix well. Add the rest of beaten eggs.
5. Add rice powder and mix well.
6. Pour 1/2 of dough into a container. Add ama-natto into the rest of the dough. Mix well. Pour into another container.
7. Bake for 25 minutes at 170C of oven.