This one is awesome and so good!
Flourless Chocolate Cake w/ Raspberry Sauce
Cake:
7 oz. semisweet baking chocolate, broken into pieces ? I
used deep dark bittersweet chips
12 tbl. butter
5 eggs, separated
1 tsp. vanilla ? I used raspberry extract
1/3 c. sugar
2 tbl. unsweetened cocoa powder
1/8 tsp. salt
Raspberry Sauce:
1 pkg. ? 12 oz. ? frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed
1/3 to ? c. sugar
Additional cocoa powder for garnish ? I didn?t use
For the cake, preheat oven to 350? F. Grease 9-inch
springform pan. (I used cupcake pans with paper inserts).
Heat chocolate and butter in med. saucepan over low heat
until melted, stirring frequently. Remove from heat, whisk
in egg yolks and vanilla. Blend in sugar, 2 tbl. cocoa and
salt. Beat egg whites to soft peaks in large bowl. Stir
about ? of egg whites into chocolate mixture. Fold chocolate
mixture into remaining egg whites. Spread batter evenly in
prepared pan. Bake about 30 minutes or until toothpick
inserted in center comes out clean and edge of cake begins
to pull away from side of pan. Cool cake in pan on wire rack
2 ? 3 minutes; carefully loosen edge of cake with sharp
knife and remove side of pan. Cool cake completely. Cover
and refrigerate overnight or up to 3 days, or wrap well and
freeze up to 3 months. For sauce, blend raspberries in
blender or food processor until smooth. Strain sauce and
discard seeds and stir in sugar to taste.
Ganache
? c. semi sweet or dark chocolate chips
2 tbl. butter ? no substitutes
2 tbl. light corn syrup
Heat all ingredients over medium heat until chocolate is
melted. Spread over top of cake, allowing some to drizzle
down the side.
Spread the ganache on top first, then just at serving time
spoon some raspberry sauce on top.
NOW: I have used the springform pan, but this time I used
cupcake pans with paper thingies. After the cupcakes were
cooled a bit, I spread a bit of ganache on top. It will
harden quickly. When you serve the cake/cupcakes, just spoon
a bit of the raspberry sauce on top. Posted under Chocolate
on Nancy?s message board.
Chris in NM
http://www.nancyskitchen.com