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Flourless Chocolate Cake with Orange Liqueur

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Recipe

 

Yield

1 cake

Prep

10 min

Cook

80 min

Ready

25 hrs
Trans-fat Free

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
14 ounces chocolate, bittersweet
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¾ cup butter
plus 2 tablespoons
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1 ¼ cups sugar
granulated
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10 large eggs
separated
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2 tablespoons liqueur
triple sec, grand marnier, cointreau or other orange flavor
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1 tablespoon vanilla extract
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1 tablespoon powdered sugar
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Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
404.6 ml/g chocolate, bittersweet
= finely chop, null
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177 ml butter
plus 2 tablespoons
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296 ml sugar
granulated
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1E+1 large eggs
separated
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3E+1 ml liqueur
triple sec, grand marnier, cointreau or other orange flavor
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15 ml vanilla extract
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15 ml powdered sugar
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Directions

Chilling time: Several hours or overnight.

  1. Put chocolate and butter into top of double boiler. Cook and stir over simmering water until melted.

Stir in ¾ cup of the sugar.

Continue stirring until sugar is almost dissolved.

  1. Beat egg yolks in large mixer until light. Beat in a little of the warm chocolate until well combined.

Continue adding chocolate until fully combined.

Return chocolate mixture to top of double boiler; cook, stirring until slightly thickened.

Do not boil. Remove from heat.

  1. Heat oven to 250 degrees. Butter and flour 12-inch springform pan.

Line sides of pan with a strip of buttered wax paper.

  1. Beat egg whites in large mixer bowl until foamy. Beat in remaining ½ cup sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until mixture holds stiff peaks.

  2. Stir liqueur and vanilla into chocolate mixture, mixing well. With a rubber spatula, scrape chocolate mixture over egg whites.

Fold together gently, but thoroughly.

  1. Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake until set and top is crusty, about 1½ hours.

Cool on wire rack to room temperature.

Refrigerate until cold. Loosen edge of cake from sides of pan.

Remove sides of pan. Put cake onto platter.

Sprinkle heavily with confectioners' sugar. Top will be brittle.



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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 246g (8.7 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 77756% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 49g 75%
Saturated Fat 27g 134%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 627mg 209%
Sodium 431mg 18%
Total Carbohydrate 23g 23%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars g
Protein 33g
Vitamin A 35% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 8% Iron 13%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 

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