This is about the easiest cake there is to make, travels well, and Grandpas seem to like it...
Flourless Chocolate Cake
4 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate
1 stick unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus additional for sprinkling
Preheat oven to 375 degrees and butter an 8 inch round baking pan. Line bottom of pan with a round of wax paper and butter paper.
Chop chocolate into small pieces (I just threw it in in two big chunks). In a double boiler or metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate with butter, stirring, until smooth. Remove top of double boiler or bowl from heat and whisk sugar into chocolate mixture, and whisk until just combined. Add eggs and whisk well. Sift 1/2 cup cocoa powder over chocolate mixture and whisk until just combined. Pour batter into pan and bake in middle of oven 25 minutes or until top has formed a thin crust. Cool in cake pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto a serving plate. Dust cake with additional cocoa powder if desired.
Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less, start to finish.
Makes one 8 inch cake.
from Gourmet, 1997 via epicurious
Previous flourless chocolate "Velvet" cake here.
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