Flourless Chocolate Cake

Name: Flourless Chocolate Cake
Yield: Serves 10 to 12
Ingredients: 12 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, broken into 1-inch pieces; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 6 , large eggs; 1 cup (7 ounces), sugar; 1/2 cup, water; 1 tablespoon, cornstarch; 1 tablespoon, vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon, instant espresso powder; 1/2 teaspoon, Salt; 1/2 cup, heavy cream, chilled; 2 teaspoons, sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2016

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Gluten Free

Cakes

This fancy restaurant dessert is seldom made at home. But after a month in the test kitchen, we had a version that takes just 10 minutes of active time to put together.

SERVES10 to 12

TIME1½ hours, plus 30 minutes cooling, 6 hours chilling, and 30 minutes standing

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Recipes for flourless chocolate cake abound, but we found these recipes to be overly complicated. For this recipe, we wanted to ditch the fancy techniques without ditching the flavor or texture. We started by microwaving some chocolate and ...

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