Flourless Chocolate Decadence Cake
This Flourless Chocolate Decadence Cake is a rich and moist chocolatey cake, a chocolate heaven for all chocolate lovers out there. This cake consists of a mousse-like texture chocolate cake that simply melts in your mouth, beautifully decorated in a flower pattern with a silky chocolate ganache.
Ingredients
- 7 oz (200g) semisweet chocolate
- 2/3 cup (150g) unsalted butter
- 4 eggs
- 2/3 cup (135g) sugar
- 1/2 tsp (2g) salt
- 1 tsp (5g) vanilla extract rum extract
- 1/4 cup (30g) cocoa powder
Chocolate Ganache
- 5.5 oz (150g) semisweet chocolate
- 5.5 oz (150g) whipping cream
Instructions
Prepare the chocolate cake.
- Preheat the oven to 325F (160C). Grease with butter a 8 inch (20cm) pan and line with parchment paper.
- Melt chocolate and butter over a bain-marie until smooth. Let cool slightly.
- Meanwhile mix the eggs with sugar and salt using a whisk or mixer until thick and light yellow, for about 5 minutes. Mix in vanilla extract or your favorite extract (mint, rum, almond, pistachio etc).
- Add melted chocolate and mix until well combined.
- Using a spatula fold in the cocoa powder. Pour mixture into the prepared pan.
- Place the pan into a larger baking tray and add hot water, up to halfway of the pan.
- Place into the oven and bake for 25 minutes and remove the pan from the baking tray.
- Let cool completely in the pan and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
Prepare the chocolate ganache for decoration.
- Place chocolate and whipping cream in a heatproof bowl and place over a pan with simmering water. Melt over low heat.
- Let cool at room temperature until thickens to a piping consistency.
- Transfer the chocolate ganache to a piping bag fitted with 1M tip.
- Decorate the cake and sprinkle some crushed freeze-dried raspberries.
- Cut with a hot knife, cleaning the knife after each cut. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
Serving: 1 servingCalories: 288kcalCarbohydrates: 27.1gProtein: 3.3gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 12.6gCholesterol: 82mgSodium: 140mgPotassium: 175mgFiber: 2.1gSugar: 23.5gCalcium: 27mgIron: 1mg