Flourless Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 10 oz high quality bittersweet chocolate
- 5 oz room temperature butter
- 7 eggs, separated
- 10 tbsp sugar
- vegetable oil and extra sugar for cake mold
- 5 tbsp sugar
- ¼ tsp salt
How-to
Preheat oven to 350°
- Add bittersweet chocolate and butter in a mixing bowl
- Place bowl on a bain marie (water bath) stirring occasionally until fully melted
- Crack eggs, separating yolks and white
- Pour sugar into bowl with egg yolks
- Whip the egg yolk mixture
- Meanwhile spray cake mold with vegetable oil and coat with sugar
- Whip egg whites, add in some sugar and then salt. Increase speed and gradually add the rest of the sugar
- Add 1/3 of egg yolks to the chocolate, stirring and folding it helping lighten the mixture. Fold rest of the egg yolks into the matter.
- Add 1/3 of egg whites to chocolate, stir and fold. Fold the remaining egg whites into the mixture
- Once mixed, pour batter into cake mold
- Bake in oven for 45 minutes. Rotate cake midway through baking
- Plate and serve
Notes
- You can use a hand blender to whip the egg yolks and whites
- You can use a removable bottom cake pan in place of pastry ring