Gail’s Flourless Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

• Egg

  Whole, fresh eggs

  7 large or 350g

• Caster Sugar (Coles)

  Sugar - Coles

  240g

• Butter

  Unsalted

  240g

• Dark chocolate

  70-85% cacao solids

  240g

• Cocoa

  Dry powder, unsweetened

  80g

• Sea Salt

  Wegmans

  ½ tsp or 2g

Directions

1. In a bowl of an electric mixer, with the whisker attachment, whisk the egg yolks with 180g of the sugar for 10 mins until very pale in colour and tripled in volume.
2. In a bain marie, gently melt the butter and chocolate. Remove from the heat and mix in the cocoa powder.
3. In a new clean bowl, whisk the egg whites with 60g of sugar and the salt until soft peaks form.
4. Fold the chocolate mix into the yolks and then gently fold the whites, trying to keep as much volume as possible.
5. Pour the cake mix into a 24cm spring form tin that has been greased and lined with baking paper.
6. Bake in a pre-heated oven on 150 degrees Celsius for 35mins.

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