Flourless Chocolate Cake
By happymumof5 on 24 July 2010 | Viewed 19224 times
Only 4 ingredients & none of them specialty items!
Ingredients
250 grams 70% Dark Chocolate
250 grams Butter
1 cup sugar
7 eggs
Method
Preheat oven to 150 degrees. Spray large spring-form pan with non stick spray and/or line with baking paper (it does tend to stick if you don’t use the baking paper). It does rise quite a bit so a large spring-form pan is much better than a regular sized one.
Put butter & chocolate into double boiler and melt on low heat (I just use a large bowl sitting on top of my saucepan about 1/4 filled with water). Or you could melt on med-low in microwave. Be careful not to over heat it - stop as soon as it is liquid!
Separate egg whites and yolks into separate bowls. Whisk egg yolks into the chocolate/butter mixture.
Beat egg whites with electric beater for 3 minutes, then add the sugar. Beat for another (approx) 3 minutes until the mixture is stiff and glossy. Gently fold egg white mixture into chocolate mixture with a rubber spatula.
Pour mixture into lined spring-form pan and smooth out with spatula.
Bake batter until cake is set in the centre - this takes up to an hour, but more or less depending on your oven & if you use fan bake etc - you’ll need to keep checking it from about 45 minutes.
Let the cake cool for at least 15 Min’s before removing from the pan. Dust with icing sugar and/or cocoa.
Try it served with greek yoghurt or cream. You could even top with fresh raspberries for an extra special treat!
Comments about this recipe / add yours
Terrible! Whos oven has a temp on it for 150? I had it on 250 for an hour and it was still liquid. I then put it on 350 and baked for an additional hour! It rose, then when it cooled it flattened like a crumbly pancake! Tasted aweful!
Posted by Marys1100 on 31/03/11 at 04:46 PM
Had a comment about the recipe being terrible because of the low temperature…um…this is a NZ website, the temperature is in CELCIUS not Fahrenheit! The recipe is great, I did make it before I posted it! Good luck next time…
Posted by happymumof5 on 31/03/11 at 05:16 PM
I made it and it’s so good gonna make it again soon… much better than normal cake!! mmmm im came out perfect!!
Posted by Shalane Malan on 16/06/11 at 10:36 AM
Fantastic cake. Very easy to make and wounderful taste. Great for gluten free.
Posted by janeen Williams on 12/08/11 at 11:20 AM
Tried it last night - so easy to make and tastes divine!
Thanks, my Dad can`t eat anything with gluten - finally he can have his cake AND eat it!
Posted by Celest Viljoen on 01/09/11 at 01:19 AM
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Will try this tonight and let you know how it went.
Posted by sheryl mcneal on 18/01/11 at 01:37 PM