Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

 1/2 cup water
 1/4 teaspoon salt
 3/4 cup white sugar
18 (1 ounce) squares bittersweet chocolate
1 cup unsalted butter
6 eggs

 Directions:

1.   Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease one 10 inch round cake pan and set aside.

 2.   In a small saucepan over medium heat combine the water, salt and sugar. Stir until completely dissolved and set aside. 

 3.   Either in the top half of a double boiler or in a microwave oven melt the bittersweet chocolate. Pour the chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer. 

 4.   Cut the butter into pieces and beat the butter into the chocolate, 1 piece at a time. Beat in the hot sugar-water. Slowly beat in the eggs, one at a time.

5.   Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Have a pan larger than the cake pan ready, put the cake pan in the larger pan and fill the pan with boiling water halfway up the sides of the cake pan. 

 6.   Bake cake in the water bath at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 45 minutes. The center will still look wet. Chill cake overnight in the pan. To unmold, dip the bottom of the cake pan in hot water for 10 seconds and invert onto a serving plate.

  
   I made this cake for our "free day" (the day that we get to eat sweets!) It is SOOOOO rich and SOOOOO good.  We topped it with homemade whipped cream and fresh raspberries - DELICIOUS!   

   Do any of you remember the "flourless cookie" that I made and how badly it turned out?  Well, here is a flourless recipe that actually does work out...plus, it's a chocolate lover's dream...OK, that might be an overstatement but the fact is that this cake is simply THE BEST!
 
   If any of you decide to make this cake, be sure to share it with someone, (or a whole group of people!) because if you don't, well, you might be tempted to eat the whole thing all by yourself!