Culinary Institute of America

Flourless Chocolate Cake

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    sheet pan cakes
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000Baking & Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft
Baking & Pastry

By Culinary Institute of America

Published 2015

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Ingredients

Ingredient U.S. Metric
Bittersweet chocolate, chopped 5

Method

  1. Melt the butter and chocolate together in a bowl over a pan of barely simmering water.
  2. Whisk in the cocoa powder. Allow the mixture to cool and blend in the egg yolks gradually.
  3. Whip the egg whites until foamy. Stream in the sugar while continuing to whip to medium peaks.
  4. Fold in a portion (approximately ⅓) of the meringue to lighten the bat