Flourless Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Cake
  • 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 8 ounces semisweet chocolate
  • 5 large eggs, room temp, separated
  • 3⁄4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Icing
  • 8 ounces semisweet chocolate
  • 1⁄2 cup cream
Topping
  • raspberries
  • whipped cream

Instructions

1 _ Preheat oven to 350.

2 _ Grease 9" springform pan with 1 tablespoons of butter, dust with flour.

3 _ In metal bowl over double boiler, melt remaining butter and chocolate, remove from heat

4 _ Use mixer to beat yolks together with sugar and vanilla.

5 _ Beat whites and salt together until stiff.

6 _ Fold chocolate mixture into yolk mixture a little at a time.

7 _ Fold in egg whites.

8 _ Pour into springform pan.

9 _ Bake 40 minutes until spongy.

10 _ Remove from oven, remove springform, cool completely.


11 _ When cake is cool, prepare icing.

12 _Mix together chocolate and cream over double boiler until smooth.

13 _ Spread over cake.

14 _ Top with raspberries and whipped cream.

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