Evelyn Sharpe's French Chocolate Cake
- 1 pound chocolate sweet
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon flour, all-purpose
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 10 tablespoons butter softened
- 4 large eggs separated
- 1 x whipped cream unsweetened
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Melt chocolate with the 1 tablespoon water, in the top of a double boiler over hot, NOT BOILING, water.
- This is a critical step in the preparation and should be done very slowly.
- Remove the melted chocolate from the heat and stir in the flour, sugar and butter.
- Beat the yolks lightly and whisk into the chocolate mixture gradually.
- Beat the whites until they hold a definite shape but are not dry and fold into the chocolate mixture.
- Overbeating or underbeating will ruin the cake.
- The beaten egg whites should be folded smoothly, quickly and easily into the chocolate mixture.
- Pour mixture into an 8 inch spring form pan that has been lined with wax paper.
- Bake 15 minutes.
- Turn off the heat; open the oven door, leaving it ajar and allow the cake to cool completely in the oven.
- If the center of the cake still feels soft, refrigerate an hour or two, but the cake is best served at room temperature.
- Decorate with whipped cream and serve in very.
chocolate sweet, water, flour, sugar, butter, eggs, whipped cream
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/evelyn-sharpes-french-chocolate-38569 (may not work)