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Flourless Chocolate Dessert Cake
I like eating desserts but I usually don’t particularly enjoy making them. However, this is a quick and easy cake to make and it tastes great. The original recipe suggests serving with a strawberry coulis but the cake is fine just as it is if strawberries are not in season when you make it.
Flourless Chocolate Dessert Cake
Ingredients:
100g dark eating chocolate, chopped
100g butter, chopped
2 tablespoons marsala
1/2 cup (110g) caster sugar
2/3 cup (80g) almond meal
1 tablespoon instant coffee powder
1 tablespoon hot water
3 eggs, separated
icing sugar mixture
Method:
- Preheat oven to moderate. Grease deep 20cm-round cake pan; line base and side with baking paper.
- Combine chocolate and butter in small saucepan; stir over low heat until both are melted.
- Combine chocolate mixture with marsala, sugar, almond meal and combine coffee and the water in large bowl; beat in egg yolks one at a time.
- Beat egg whites in small bowl with electric mixer until soft peaks form; gently fold into chocolate mixture in two batches. Pour mixture into prepared pan.
- Bake in moderate oven about 45 minutes; cover with foil during baking if overbrowning. Cool cake in pan, cover; refrigerate several hours or overnight.
- Carefully turn cake onto board; cut into slices with a hot knife. Dust cake with icing sugar.
Serve with strawberry coulis and whipped cream if desired.
Strawberry Coulis
Ingredients:
250g strawberries
1/4 cup (40g) icing sugar mixture
Method:
- Blend or process hulled strawberries and icing sugar until mixture is smooth.
Tips
The cake will sink slightly as it cools.
Marsala is a sweet red wine. If you don’t have any handy, you can try substituting port or even sherry.
If you are after a gluten-free recipe, check that the icing sugar you use doesn’t contain flour.
