Flourless Chocolate Cake

By happymumof5 on 24 July 2010 | Viewed 1946 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!

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