Flourless Chocolate Cake
"A simple, but sophisticated, flourless chocolate cake, subtly perfumed with Cointreau (orange liqueur). If you serve a dollop of softly-whipped cream on the side, you'll have a truly impressive dessert."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 8 ounces best-quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped,melted and cooled
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons Cointreau liqueur
- whipped cream
directions
- Butter a small ring mold and dust it with flour, tapping out excess.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Cream butter.
- Add chocolate and blend well.
- In another bowl, whisk eggs with sugar until combined well.
- Add eggs to chocolate and beat well.
- Sift cornstarch over batter and stir in.
- Stir in Cointreau.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Put in larger pan, add enough hot water to reach halfway up sides of pan.
- Bake in the middle of oven for 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
- Remove cake and let cool 10 minutes.
- Invert onto a plate.
- Let cool completely in mold and then lift mold off cake.
- May be made 1 day in advance and kept, covered loosely, at room temperature.
- Serve with whipped cream.
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
