I still have to fix a few things around here (the last three posts have disappeared) but I hope everything else works fine. Thanks everyone for your patience! Switching servers was a pain but necessary, because the old company had been extremely unresponsive for several months now. Hopefully this one will turn out better.
So enough about boring server stuff, let’s talk about chocolate! This cake –which was actually the first thing I baked in the new oven– is delicious. Not in a typical chocolate layer cake kind of way, but in a this is so light and fluffy I could eat several slices way (which can be very dangerous, obviously). And since it doesn’t have flour, it’s naturally gluten free so you can serve it to your celiac friends for dessert. I hope you’ll give it a try, it was a big hit here. Then again, anything with chocolate usually is.
Flourless Chocolate Cake
Recipe from Martha Stewart
- 6 Tbsp butter, plus a bit more for the pan
- 8 oz (225g) dark chocolate
- 6 large eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- Preheat oven to 275ºF (135ºC) and butter a 9 inch springform pan.
- Melt butter and chocolate; let it cool for a bit, and whisk in egg yolks.
- Beat egg whites until you have soft peaks; then add in white sugar slowly and beat until glossy stiff peaks form. Whisk about a fourth of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture, then fold in remaining egg whites carefully.
- Pour batter into pan, smooth it with a spatula, and bake for 45-50 minutes; until edges of the cake pull away from the pan and the center is just set. Let it cool on top of a wire rack and remove sides of the pan.
I hope you have a great weekend! We’re going to a couple of barbecues and since one of them is to celebrate my aunt’s birthday, I’ll be baking a trial cake so I’ll be able to try out a wedding cake recipe. What about you guys? Anything special planned for this weekend?
This cake looks amazing!!!! I have to try this recipe. And love the dessert forks
It was delicious!
Looks really good =) I’ve never made a flourless cake…I’ll have to remember this.
I hope you get the server working; how frustrating!
Yeah I think this was the first time I made one really flourless (I had previously made some that called for a few tablespoons of flour). And thankfully the server is working properly, I just need to upload the last three posts prior to the switch, since the last backup I had was a week before it happened.
Yum! It looks super delicious! Ive never had flourless cake before so I can’t imagine how it would taste but I might have to give it a try!! How can something with chocolate be bad really?
Hope your server is all sorted out!! Missed your wedding post on Wednesday!
It’s super light and airy! Not like traditional cake at all.
We’ve actually had some major setbacks with the wedding, so I’m trying to figure out how to handle everything…
Oh no!! Set backs are always awful!! I experienced a lot of those in the beginning and it was super discouraging. Hopefully you can figure it all out!!
I just got a major chocolate craving! This looks delicious!
It was really good! I could definitely use a bit of cake right now…
Mmmmmm si que se ve bueno… super esponjoso ! Que alegria el nuevo horno, se `pueden cocinar muchisimas cosas , me encanta meter cosas y tu te olvidas jaja.
Sí, es muy esponjoso! Estaba riquísimo. Y estamos muy contentos con el horno de momento.
Looks really, really good. Happy to hear your server is running well now after the switch. I had issues trying to read posts here last week.
Thanks for the heads up John! When switching servers you lose all the data so I had to re-upload everything from a backup, which took a few hours. That’s probably why you had issues last week, but I hope all is fixed now!
I think I missed this when I posted! I have three friends who can’t eat gluten so this is a really handy recipe to have around. Did you make this in your kitchenaid? Did you do it all with the whisk attachment or switch to the beater for the last steps?
Thanks!
I only used the kitchenaid with the whisk attachment for the egg whites – the rest I did by hand with a spatula. Hope that helps!