Wolfgang's Favorite Chocolate Cake
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- Serves 12
Recipe Provided By: Wolfgang Puck
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1. Ingredients
- 8 (1 ounce) squares Bittersweet Chocolate
- 4 ounces Unsalted Butter
- 5 Large Eggs
- 1 pinch Salt
- 2/3 cup Sugar
Nutrition Info
Per Serving
- Calories: 245 kcal
- Carbohydrates: 22 g
- Dietary Fiber: 1 g
- Fat: 15 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Sugars: 19 g
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2. Cooking Directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Butter, flour and line the base of a 10-inch round cake pan with parchment.
- Combine chocolate and butter in a bain marie or in a bowl over simmering water.
- Whisk together the egg yolks and all but 3 tablespoons of the sugar. Stir melted chocolate into egg yolks until thoroughly combined.
- With an electric mixer, on medium speed, beat egg whites and salt until soft peaks form.
- Gradually beat in the remaining sugar and continue to whip until egg whites are stiff but not dry.
- Carefully fold chocolate mixture into egg whites. Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for about 45 minutes.
- Turn out onto a rack immediately.
- As the cake cools, the center will sink and crack - do not worry.
Yield: 12 servings
3. Still Hungry?
This is a flourless chocolate cake, one that tastes fabulously rich and decadent. It requires nothing more than a sprinkling of powdered sugar and unsweetened whipped cream to make an exciting finish to a great meal.
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Wolfgang Puck's Favorite Cake
A. Z - June 14, 2007 03:26:51 PM PSTIt should be noted that....as stated on the Wolfgang Puck site.....
This is a flourless chocolate cake, one that tastes fabulously rich and decadent. It requires nothing more than a sprinkling of powdered sugar and unsweetened whipped cream to make an exciting finish to a great meal.3 of 4 found this review helpful.
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Wonderful
WDE - July 7, 2007 02:15:02 PM PSTThis is an excellent chocolate cake. As for the comment titled "ingredients"; the amount of flour you use on the pan is just a dusting. Use a fine-meshed sieve and after you butter the pan, just sprinkle the flour evenly over the pan. This is a very common practice in cake baking.
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Flourless Chocolate Cake
roseyg856 - July 7, 2007 02:05:57 PM PSTThe "flour" is only used in this recipe to keep the cake from sticking. "Flour the pan" is common in baking. It doesn't mean that the actual ingredents call for flour.
For someone like myself who cannot use "flour" this was an excellent cake.2 of 2 found this review helpful.
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Iceman - July 7, 2007 04:03:10 PM PSTOnly a New Yorker would make a complaint about that. Come on. Of course flour is only used to make the cake not stick. Really good recipe. Very rich so just eat a sliver. Great with cold milk or a touch of whip cream.
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cake baker - June 14, 2007 04:53:01 PM PSTit seems as if someone doesn't know how to read.
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