Flourless Chocolate Cake

Servings: 16

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Prep Time
25 minutes

Cook Time
1 day, 21 hours

Refrigerate
8 hours

Total Time
2 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes

Dessert

American

Flourless

Instructions

1 Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Grease a 10-inch round cake pan; set aside.
2 Combine sugar, water, and salt in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir until
completely dissolved; set aside.
3 Melt bittersweet chocolate in a microwave-safe glass or ceramic bowl in
15-second intervals, stirring after each interval, 1 to 3 minutes. Pour
chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer.
4 Cut butter into pieces; beat butter, one piece at a time, into chocolate until
combined. Beat in hot sugar water. Slowly beat in eggs, one at a time.
5 Pour batter into the prepared cake pan. Have a pan larger than the cake pan
ready; put the cake pan in the larger pan and fill the larger pan with boiling
water halfway up the sides of the cake pan.
6 Bake cake in the water bath in the preheated oven for 45 minutes. The center
will still look wet. Place cake in the refrigerator until thoroughly chilled, 8
hours to overnight.
7 To unmold, dip the bottom of the cake pan in hot water for 10 seconds and invert
onto a serving plate.