Recipe: Perfect Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake. The center will still look wet. Chill cake overnight in the pan. Melt the chocolate and butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat; stirring frequently until smooth.

And, since it contains neither flour nor leavening, it's perfect for Passover. Rich, gooey and soul-satisfying, flourless chocolate cake is what you need to celebrate your best friend's birthday. It's the cake you need to make a bad day better, and when you need to impress a guestit's just the thing. You can have Flourless Chocolate Cake using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Flourless Chocolate Cake

1. Prepare 8 oz of semi sweet chocolate, chopped.
2. Prepare 8 of large eggs, seperated and at room temperature.
3. It's 2 tbsp of sour cream.
4. Prepare 2/3 cup of granulated sugar or splenda sugar subsitute.
5. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder.
7. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. It's of for optional glaze topping.
9. You need 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
10. It's 4 oz of semi sweet chocolate chopped.

It will never be too fancy or too casual. After all, it's the little black dress of cakes. Put the chocolate, butter, and salt in a large microwave safe bowl. A flourless chocolate cake is the perfect end to a holiday meal.

Flourless Chocolate Cake step by step

1. To make cake.
2. Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9 inche cake pan with non stick spray, line the pan with parchment paper and spray paper with the non stick spray..
3. Melt the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl carefully just until melted, set aside while preparing eggs..
4. Beat the egg whites and baaking powder in a large bowl to stiff peaks. Now beat in a different bowl the egg yolks, sour cream, sugar, salt and vanilla, beat well until thick and pale 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in melted chocolate until well blended..
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7. Add egg white mixture in 3 additions to yolk chocolate mixture folding gently but combining well do not deflate.
8. Pour intorepared pan. Bake on a cookie sheet for 30 to 45 minutes it should spring back when touched, do not overcook but be sure middle is cooked through. Cool on a rack before turning out on serving dish..
9. For optional glaze.
10. In a small saucepan heat cream to a simmer, remove from heat and add chocolate, let sit 1 minute then stir until smooth, spoon over cooled cake allow to set.
11. Other garnishes.
12. Whipped cream and berries are wonderful with this cake!.

Best of all it can be made up to three days ahead. You'll find that this elegant dessert is easier to make than you think. It really isn't fussy, which means it can just as easily cap a small, cozy celebration (like you might be having this year) as it can an elegant dinner. The best part about this flourless cake is that it doesn't require any flour alternatives. It's just the perfect cake that happens to have zero flour.

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