Crackled Flourless Chocolate Cake
Okay, chocolate lovers! Buckle up – because this crackled flourless chocolate cake is the chocolate cake of. your. dreams. It is fudgy on the inside with a crackly meringue crust – top it with vanilla ice cream and it is the perfect dessert.
Key Ingredients for Crackled Flourless Chocolate Cake
What’s great about this recipe is you MOST LIKELY already have the ingredients for this cake in your pantry. You will need:
- Semi-sweet/dark chocolate – you can use one or a combination of both. I like to use both and I find that Ghirardelli has the best quality chocolate for these. This is my favorite.
- Unsalted butter
- Eggs, separated
- Brown sugar
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Salt
- Vanilla extract
Method
Preheat oven and prep your pan
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and grease a 9×9 inch or 8×8 inch pie/cake pan.
Combining the chocolate and butter
In a medium-sized bowl, combine the chopped chocolate (or chocolate chips) and the cubed butter.
Melt them together in the microwave (or on the stove) in 30 second increments, stirring every 30 seconds until completely melted. Mine usually takes three 30 second increments to completely melt. Set aside to cool.
Separate and beat the eggs
While the chocolate/butter mixture is cooling, separate the eggs.
Place the egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixer (or a medium bowl if using a handheld mixer) fitted with the whisk attachment. Place the egg yolks in a separate small bowl.
Turn your mixer on medium speed and beat the egg whites until foamy. Then, slowly stream in the brown sugar while turning the mixer speed to high. The brown sugar will aerate the egg whites. Beat for 5-7 minutes until stiff peaks form.
Combining the remaining ingredients
While the egg whites are beating, add the yolks to your chocolate mixture one by one, whisking thoroughly between each addition Add the cocoa powder, salt and vanilla extract and fold together until combined.
Once your egg whites are done, add spoonfuls of the egg whites into your batter, folding it together in between each spoonful. Gently fold them together – do not whisk – you will knock too much air out of the egg whites. Repeat this process until all of the egg whites are incorporated into the batter.
Gently pour the batter into your prepared pan. Bake for 45-55 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Top with ice cream, whipped cream, berries, etc., and enjoy!
Crackled Flourless Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 8 oz good quality chocolate, chopped, I like to use half semi-sweet chocolate and half dark chocolate!
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cubed
- 5 eggs, separated
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
Equipment
- Oven
- Stand/handheld mixer
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahreinheit and grease a 9×9 inch or 8×8 inch cake/pie pan.
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine the chopped chocolate (or chocolate chips) and the cubed butter. Melt them together in the microwave (or on the stove) in 30 second increments, stirring every 30 seconds until completely melted. Set aside to cool.
- While the chocolate/butter mixture is cooling, separate the eggs. Place the egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixer (or a medium bowl if using a handheld mixer) fitted with the whisk attachment. Place the egg yolks in a separate small bowl.
- Turn your mixer on medium speed and beat the egg whites until foamy. Then, slowly stream in the brown sugar while turning the mixer speed to high. The brown sugar will aerate the egg whites. Beat for 5-7 minutes until stiff peaks form.
- While the egg whites are beating, add the yolks to your chocolate mixture one by one, whisking thoroughly between each addition.
- Add the cocoa powder, salt and vanilla extract and fold together until combined.
- Once your egg whites are done, add spoonfuls of the egg whites into your batter, folding it together in between each spoonful. Gently fold them together – do not whisk – you will knock too much air out of the egg whites. Repeat this process until all of the egg whites are incorporated into the batter.
- Gently pour the batter into your prepared pan. Bake for 45-55 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Top with ice cream, whipped cream, berries, etc., and enjoy!
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