15-Minute Chocolate Cake

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With just 4 ingredients, this flourless 15-minute chocolate cake is a simple dessert that's rich, decadent and can be served at room temperature or chilled.

Prep Time10

Cook Time15

Total Time25

Course: Cakes, Pies & Tarts

Cuisine: Italian

Servings:

Author: Paige Adams

Ingredients

10 ounces unsalted butter plus more for greasing pan and foil
1 pound 70% bittersweet chocolate roughly chopped
6 large eggs
Confectioners’ sugar for serving

Makes: 10inch round

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Grease a 10-inch springform pan with butter and line the bottom with parchment
Melt the butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water on the stove.
In another bowl over the saucepan of simmering water, use a handheld electric mixer to beat the eggs until they are pale and thickened and form soft peaks. Fold the eggs into the chocolate in two batches.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Loosely cover with buttered foil.
Place the springform pan in a large roasting pan filled with of very hot water. The water should come halfway up the side of the springform pan. Bake for 5 minutes before removing the foil. Continue baking for 10 minutes until just set.
Take the pan out of the water and allow the cake to cool completely on a wire rack before removing from the pan.
The cake can be served at room temperature or chilled from the refrigerator.
Dust with confectioners’ sugar, if using.
Store in the refrigerator.

Notes

When the cake is served at room temperature, it is delicate and like a custard. After the cake is chilled in the refrigerator, it has a more solid and almost truffle-like consistency.

Adapted from Italian Easy: Recipes from the London River Café by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers

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