Flourless chocolate cake

Flourless chocolate cake

A flourless chocolate cake is a type of cake made from an aerated chocolate custard. It is prepared with a whole egg foam in a manner similar to a Génoise cake, using low heat from the melted chocolate to stabilize the protein matrix (which contains only the starch naturally present in the chocolate) and then baked in a bain-marie. While traditionally considered a restaurant-style dessert, flourless chocolate cake is also popular for gluten-free diets.

A similar cake with little or no flour in which the egg matrix is allowed to collapse is known as "fallen" or "molten" chocolate cake and was popularized by, among others, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's restaurants.

ee also

*chocolate mousse
*cheesecake

External links

* [http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/14478 Recipe at epicurious.com]

References

*Editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine, "Baking Illustrated", Brookline, MA: America's Test Kitchen, 2004, ISBN 0936184752.


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