Gateau au chocolat

I made a Gateau au chocolat today. I bought a recipe book in 1990 and I haven't made anything from it at all.
I've found it during our moving.
My mum used to make bread, cookies and pound cakes when I was child. When I moved to US, she gave me all her cooking tools.
Recently, I bought a hand blender which is very useful to blend, chop and mix ingredients. I really wanted to use it so I chose to make gateau au chocolat which gets its volume from meringue.
As soon as I made a peak of meringue, I mixed the chocolate cream gently and put it into the oven. I think this part is the most important. If the mixture is left to long or handle too hard, the cake will turn out flat. Anyway, it looked OK and tasted good so I think it worked. I served it with our favourite black walnut ice cream and whipped cream!!!