Flourless Chocolate Cake

By LisaMK

This recipe is from the Parade magazine, Feb. 2011.

Ingredients

• 7 oz really good (45-50 percent cocoa) semisweet cocoa
• 3/4 c butter
• 1 c sugar, divided
• 4 eggs, separated

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 45mins
Cooking time 85mins

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Melt chocolate and butter in double boiler. Stir together half the sugar and four yolks; add to melted chocolate concoction.

2. in electric mixer: beat egg whites; slowly add remaining 1/2 cup sugar until stiff peaks form. Fold mixture into chocolate.
Pour into greased 9" cake pan

3. Bake 40 mins. or until center is clean with just a few crumbs. Cool 30 mins. before removing from pan. Dust w/powdered sugar.