Chocolate Cloud Cake
From sara 16 years agoIngredients
- Cake: shopping list
- 9 ounces bittersweet chocolate shopping list
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened shopping list
- 6 eggs (2 whole, 4 separated) shopping list
- 3/4 cup superfine sugar shopping list
- 2 tablespoons Cointreau shopping list
- grated zest of 1 orange shopping list
- Topping: shopping list
- 2 cups heavy cream shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- 1 tablespoon Cointreau (optional) shopping list
- half teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Line the bottom of a 9 inch springform cake pan with baking parchment.
- Melt the chocolate either in a double boiler or a microwave, and then let the butter melt in the warm chocolate.
- Beat the 2 whole eggs and 4 egg yolks with 1/3 cup of the sugar, then gently add the chocolate mixture, the Cointreau and orange zest.
- In another bowl, whisk the 4 egg whites until foamy, then gradually add the remaining sugar and whisk until the whites are holding their shape but are not too stiff.
- Lighten the chocolate mixture with a dollop of egg whites, and then fold in the rest of the whites.
- Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 35-40 minutes or until the cake is risen and cracked and the centre is no longer wobbly.
- Cool the cake in its pan on a wire rack; the middle will sink as it cools.
- Whip the cream until it's soft and then add the vanilla and Cointreau and continue whisking until the cream is firm but not stiff.
- Fill the crater of the cake with the whipped cream, easing it out gently towards the edges of the cake, and dust the top lightly with cocoa powder.
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