Chocolate Cloud Cake Ingredients Recipe Rating It serves 8 to 12 Ingredients: Cake: 10 ounces best quality coarsely chopped semisweet chocolate. ½ cup softened pieces of unsalted butter. 6 large eggs: 2 whole, 4 separated 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cognac or Grand Marnier Grated zest of 1 orange Whipped Cream Topping: 1 ½ cups heavy cream, will chilled 3 tablespoons confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Unsweetened cocoa powder, for sprinkling Instructions
· Cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Without buttering the pan, line the bottom of an 8-inch spring form pan with a round of wax paper. Melt the chocolate in a double container, the above container set with hot water. Remove the pan from the heat and beat in the butter until it is melted; set aside. · In a bowl, beat the 6 eggs taken with ¼ cup of the sugar just until blended. Beat in the preserves, Grand Marnier or cognac and 1 of the eggs. Beat all the above immediately with the chocolate mixture when it is warm. · In another bowl, with an electric mixer, until the 4 egg whites turns into foamy beat it. Beat the whites adding slowly the left over sugar to form soft mounds see that it should not become stiff. Mix the ¼ of the beaten eggs with the chocolate mixture to make lighten it. Pour this mixture into the pan and make smooth at the top. · Bake till the top of the cake is puffed and cracked for 30 to 35 minutes. Do not over bake. · Keep the pan with cake on a wire rack to become cool. After cooling the cake will sink. · While serving, sprinkle the top evenly with cocoa powder. With the tip of a knife cut the cake into pieces. Slowly remove the cake pieces from the pan and serve. There is speaking grace. Colossians 4:6 says, Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. ~Blessings, Sugar --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
