almost flourless sinfully rich chocolate cake
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Last night at 9pm I baked an Almost Flourless Sinful Chocolate Cake. All of a sudden, I felt like making something with chocolate, I have restrainted myself from baking lately due to my detox mindset. However, last night my hands got “itchy” and with the Le Maison du Chocolat baking chocolate sitting idle at home for months, I decided to bake a sinful chocolate cake. Peter has been on the road a lot lately that I thought this will give him a nice treat. When I told him on the phone that I was baking a chocolate cake, I could feel he replied me with so much joy saying ” Lekker”!
I flicked through my old food magazines and found this chocolate cake which seems so easy to make. It came out to be really easy, however, I wondered if this recipe was really being tested because the size of the baking tin was too small and the 20 minutes baking time was really too short. Otherwise this is a wonderful recipe. What surprised me was that this cake contains so little flour and as a result after having a piece, I did not feel stuffed at all. Also the beauty of this cake is that it uses so little butter so I will consider this a low-carb and low-fat cake without sacrificing the richness of a chocolate cake should have and the ground almond inside the cake gives some nutty texture without compromising the smoothness of the cake itself. The cake has a crunchy crust on top and a little gooey inside, a little like the chocolate brownie.
Adapted from BBC Olive Food Magazine October 2008 advertisement between P.66 &67, Chocolate Cake by www.kenwoodworld.com/uk
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 150g dark chocolate (70% cocoa & best quality chocolate you can get hold of)
- 15g unsalted butter
- 50ml water
- 25g plain flour
- 50g ground blanched almonds, also known as almond meal or almond flour
- powdered sugar for dusting
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC
- Grease and line an 23cm cake tin
- Break the chocolate into pieces and put into a glass bowl together with the butter and water. Melt the chocolate in the hot water bath. That is place the glass bowl in a saucepan filled with hot simmering water. Keep the stove on at medium heat. Stir gently with a spoon when the chocolate is almost melted.
- Meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, mix the eggs, sugar and vanilla essence together with a mixer for about 3 mins until the mixture becomes very light and fluffy.
- When the chocolate mixture is melted, remove from water bath and let it cool down for 10 mins.
- Add the flour and ground almond into the egg sugar mixture, mix with a wooden spoon. Then gradually add in the melted chocolate and mix through.
- Pour the cake mixture into the cake tin and bake for 30-40 mins.
- To check if the cake is cooked enough, place a wooden stick in the middle of the cake, if it comes out easily almost clean, this is ready. It is ok if a little chocolate sticks to the stick, as the cake will still be cooking when it is cooling down.
- When the cake is cooked, remove the tin from the oven and let it cool down on a cooling rack.
- When serve, dust with powder sugar and serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Enjoy!
Unfortunately, I can't see your pic… anyway, I'm sure this cake not only tastes sinfully good, but also looks really tempting!
Cheers,
Rosa
That looks like a wedge of pure chocolate-y bliss! Crunchy crust and gooey inside are exactly the descriptors that catch my attention and make me crave a slice. This is perfect as a simple yet rich dessert for dinner guests!
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You are right, I have planned to make this and take this to my friends' BBQ on Thurs : )
Love the texture, looks amazingly moist and rich.
Yes, it was still a little wet but after cooling, it was just right!
I have made this cake, I found my recipe in an old Gourmet magazine.
Delicious.
Hi Vannie, the almond added was great, wasn’t it?
This sounds wonderfully delicious! I love the addition of almonds!
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Wow, it looks terrific!
Cheers,
Rosa
This looks delicious – I make a very similar cake from a Rosa Mitchell recipe (from My Cousin Rosa) and its always a winner!
Yummie, this chocolate cake looks so delicious, moist and with almond flour, I can only imagine the taste
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Your cake looks delicious! It looks light even though there’s little flour in it, and the ground almonds sound great.
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Thanks Lisa, it’s very dense and it stays moist and fresh for a few days. The ground almonds make it feel like those cakes from 5 stars bakeries!
I have the same recipe when I bought my Kenwood 2300 Watt. I received a book with recipes in it. I have made this recipe before & I loved every bite of it!!
This is a real delicious cake!!
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Hi Sophie, funny to hear you have the Kenwood mixer. I went to their website and do not find that recipe. I love this cake, so easy, will definitely make again and again.
Sounds good and simple to make – my favorite kind of recipes. I have hazelnuts meal in the freezer, i try the recipe with that. I’m sure it’ll taste good as well.
Love the photos.
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I guess you can use any kind of nut meal : ) Hope you will try it !
Any kind of rich chocolate cake – flour or no flour – sounds perfect to me
I love chocolate cake and yours looks sssoo delicious! Thanks for sharing
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vat a lovely delicious cake!! yummm!!
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Oh man, I love chocolate cake and this looks wonderful!
Amazing! This is way too simple to bake and the result was too good. Not overly rich but just enough to indulge for supper. Can’t taste the almond though…..thanks for the recipe!
Hi May, glad you like the cake and it came out well. I think the almond helps binding and act a bit like flour. I like it not having the almond taste actually and you?
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My mouth is already watering just from reading this recipe. Continue these awesome posts.