Cook The Book: Easy Small Nemesis Chocolate Cake
- 12 ounces 70% cocoa chocolate
- 2 sticks unsalted butter
- 5 eggs
- 1 cup superfine sugar
- Heat the oven to 300%deg;F
- Using extra butter, grease a 10-inch round cake pan and line with baking parchment.
- Break the chocolate into pieces and melt with butter in a bowl over simmering water. Beat the eggs and 5 tablespoons of the sugar in an electric mixer until the volume quadruples.
- Heat the remaining sugar with 7 tablespoons of water until dissolved into a light syrup. Pour the hot syrup into the melted chocolate and cool slightly.
- Add the chocolate to the eggs and beat slowly until the mixture is combined. Pour into the pan.
- Put a folded dish towel in the bottom of a roasting pan. Put in the cake and add enough hot water to come three-quarters of the way up the side of the cake pan.
- Bake in the oven for 1 hour until set. Leave the cake to cool in the water before unmolding.
chocolate, butter, eggs, sugar
Taken from www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/03/easy-small-nemesis-chocolate-cake-recipe.html (may not work)