Flourless Chocolate Cake
- 4 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened)
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus additional for sprinkling
- Accompaniment if desired: Coconut Lime Sorbet
- Preheat oven to 375F and butter an 8-inch round baking pan.
- Line bottom with a round of wax paper and butter paper.
- Chop chocolate into small pieces.
- In a double boiler or metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate with butter, stirring, until smooth.
- Remove top of double boiler or bowl from heat and whisk sugar into chocolate mixture.
- Add eggs and whisk well.
- Sift 1/2 cup cocoa powder over chocolate mixture and whisk until just combined.
- Pour batter into pan and bake in middle of oven 25 minutes, or until top has formed a thin crust.
- Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto a serving plate.
- Dust cake with additional cocoa powder and serve with sorbet if desired.
- (Cake keeps, after being cooled completely, in an airtight container, 1 week.)
bittersweet chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs, sprinkling, sorbet
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/flourless-chocolate-cake-14478 (may not work)