Flourless Chocolate Cake

I have a roommate right now who makes some pretty awesome food on occasion (hello RM) - and some of these recipes need to be shared because they are just too yummy to keep to myself :)


For instance this Flourless Chocolate Cake. Think of brownies on steroids and you will be pretty close to the mark. And so easy too - she told me it was, but dang! She wasn't kidding!


So here it is - reblogged from her food blog,  the recipe is from a 1997 issue of Gourmet.

Flourless Chocolate Cake

4 oz good bittersweet chocolate (I used a 72% dark chocolate bar, and it was pretty decadent. You could easily go lighter...)

1/2 c real butter

3/4 c sugar

3 large eggs

1/2 c unsweetened cocoa powder

1 t vanilla (the original recipe does not call for this, but comments on Epicurious recommend it)

Preheat oven to 375 F. Butter an 8-inch round cake pan and line bottom with a round of wax paper; butter paper. In a double-boiler-type setup, melt chocolate with butter, stirring till smooth. Remove from heat. Whisk in sugar. Add eggs, whisk well. Sift in cocoa and whisk till just combined. Pour batter in pan and bake in the middle of the oven 25 minutes, or until top has formed a thin crust. Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto a serving plate. 

Then fancy it up as your whims dictate - a chocolate ganache, berries, powdered sugar, whipped cream... so many yummy possibilities.