Flourless Chocolate Cakes

This week has been chocolate-flavoured. It must be the pregnancy hormones (or am I just making excuses?) but another recipe was calling out to be tried, this time from Donna Hay's basic baking bible Modern Classics Book 2. I was scouring through several cookbooks looking for an easy recipe that involved chocolate and stumbled on this - Flourless Chocolate Cakes. The ingredients list was short and luckily, I had them all in the pantry so here it goes -


Flourless Chocolate Cakes
(from Donna Hay's Modern Classics Book 2)

• 180 grams (6 oz.) cold unsalted butter, chopped
• 220 grams (7 1/2 oz.) quality dark cooking chocolate, chopped (I used 70% Lindt)
• 1 1/4 cups caster (superfine) sugar
• 3/4 cup almond meal (crushed fine almonds)
• 1 cup cocoa powder, sifted
• 5 eggs
  


• Preheat the oven to 140C (280F).
• Place the butter, chocolate and sugar in a saucepan over low heat and stir until melted and smooth.
• Place the almond meal and cocoa powder in a bowl and whisk in the chocolate mixture.
• Add the eggs gradually, whisking until well-combined.
• Grease 12 x 1/2 cup (4 fl. oz) capacity non-stick muffin tins. (I lined my muffin tins with paper cups)
• Spoon in the mixture and bake for 3o minutes or until firm.
• Allow to cool in the tins.
• Serve with thick double cream or chocolate glaze and fresh berries if desired.
• Makes 12.

(* We made 12 cakes and still had some leftover mixture which my son spooned onto a silicone mini-muffin pan to make babycakes. Perfect served beside a shot of espresso.)