Flourless Chocolate Cake
Source of Recipe
Cathy Engle
Recipe Introduction
Great for those who need gluten-free recipes
List of Ingredients
- 1 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate morsels
- 1 cup butter cut into small pieces
- water (roughly 1 cup)
- instant coffe granules (optional...about 1 tsp)
- baking cocoa (approx 1 cup)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 8 eggs
- confectioner's sugar
- sweetened whipped cream or cool whip
Instructions
- Grease the bottom of a 9 in. springfrom pan. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment or waxed paper. Grease paper. Set aside. Place morsels, butter, water and coffee in a medium, heavy duty saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until melted and smooth. Stir in cocoa. Remove from heat.
- Beat eggs in a large mixing bowl for 5 minutes or until the volume double. Fold one-third of the beaten eggs into the chocolate mixture. Fold in remaining beaten eggs one-third at a time. Scrape batter into prepared pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 35-37 minutes or until cake has risen and edges start to get firm and shiny. The center will still move and appear unbaked.
- Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Center will sink slightly. Cover cake and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
- About 30 minutes before serving, remove side of pan by first running knife around edge of cake. Invert cake on a sheet of parchment paper, peel off pan liner and the cake right side up on serving platter, Dust with confectioners sugar and serve with whipped cream.
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