Flourless Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Egg

  Whole, fresh eggs

  7 large or 350g

• Caster Sugar (Coles)

  Sugar - Coles

  6 ⅓ oz or 180g

• Butter

  Unsalted

  1 cup or 227g

• Dark chocolate

  70-85% cacao solids

  1 ½ cup, chips or 252g

• Cocoa

  Dry powder, unsweetened

  1 cup or 86g

• Caster Sugar (Coles)

  Sugar - Coles

  2 oz or 57g

• Salt

  Table

  ½ tsp or 3g

Directions

1. Grease and line a 9 inch springform pan with parchment. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
2. In a bowl of an electric mixer, with the whisk attachment, whisk the egg yolks with the 1st sugar for 10 minutes until very pale in colour and tripled in volume.
3. In a bain marie, gently melt the butter and chocolate. Remove from the heat and mix in the cocoa powder.
4. In a new clean bowl, whisk the egg whites with remaining sugar and the salt until soft peaks form.
5. Fold the chocolate mix into the yolks and then gently fold the whites, trying to keep as much volume as possible.
6. Pour the cake mix into prepared pan.
7. Bake for a bout 35 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Enjoy!