Recipe: Perfect Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake. Rich, deep-dark flourless chocolate cake with chocolate-ganache glaze. Allow to cool completely on a wire cooling rack, then serve with a dusting of cocoa powder and fresh berries. Flourless Chocolate Cake is rich, dense, fudgy, and incredibly easy to make.

Flourless chocolate cake (aka FCC) needs intense chocolate flavor and a balance of dense and light textures; and of course, you have to actually be able to make the darn thing work. A flourless chocolate cake is a dense "fallen" cake made from an aerated chocolate custard. Whole eggs are whipped to a foam in a manner similar to a Génoise cake, using low heat from the melted chocolate to stabilize the protein matrix. You can have Flourless Chocolate Cake using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Flourless Chocolate Cake

1. You need 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. You need 2/3 cup of granulated sugar or splenda sugar subsitute.
5. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
6. It's 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder.
7. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. It's of for optional glaze topping.
9. It's 1/4 cup of heavy cream.
10. You need 4 oz of semi sweet chocolate chopped.

Best way to see the texture of the cake i.e. moist, tender crumb but fudgey, not dense and mud cake like. It was difficult to capture in photos. 🙂. The best part about this flourless chocolate cake is that it doesn't require any flour alternatives. It's just the perfect cake that happens to have zero flour.

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!.

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