Flourless Chocolate Cake Preheat oven to 375 degrees. 8 ounces semisweet chocolate chips, 1-1/3 cups 1/2 cup butter 4 egg yokes, save whites in separate bowl 1/2 cup white, granulated sugar 1/2 tsp rum extract or vanilla extract 4 egg whites, the ones you saved 1/4 cup white granulated sugar sweetened whip cream to decorate top shaved chocolate or chocolate curls to decorate top, optional sliced or whole berries to decorate top, optional
Lightly grease 8 inch springform pan. Line bottom of pan with circle of parchment paper or wax paper. Lightly grease paper. In microwave safe bowl, combine butter and chocolate chips and melt. In medium bowl beat 1/2 cup sugar with egg yokes until smooth. Mix in extract. Stir a bit of egg yoke mixture in to melted chocolate. Then add chocolate to egg mixture and mix until blended. In large bowl using clean beaters, beat egg whites until peaks form. Continue beating while mixing in remaining 1/4 cup sugar. Beat until stiff peaks form, about 1/2 minute. Stir a bit of egg white mixture in to chocolate mixture. Now add chocolate to bowl with rest of egg whites and gently fold in with rubber spatula. Continue folding until mixture is a uniform color. Pour batter in to cake pan and smooth top with rubber spatula. Bake at 375 for 35 minutes or until wooden tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Run a knife on inside of pan and invert pan on serving plate and cool 10 more minutes. Release catch on the springform pan and remove it. Do not peal off paper until cake is completely cooled. When ready to serve, fill crater in cake with whip topping. Ice rest of cake with whip topping and garnish with berries or chocolate curls, or whatever you like. Note: I've never made this, so I can't help with any questions. Just found the recipe and copied it here. Shannon Nicole Wells, author http://www.wildheartbook.com http://oldtimechristian.blogspot.com http://www.twitter.com/authorshannon http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1826550903 _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
