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Flourless chocolate cake (Passover friendly)

55 min • 8 to 10 servings •
David
Decadent chocolate cake slice with whipped cream on a plate, whole cake in background on granite kitchen counter.

I loved my grandmother. I would get a crisp new bank note every time I kissed her, half a jelly baby for a treat (I might have choked on a whole one, apparently) and the best chicken soup in the world.

But come Passover, in her flour-less home, her cakes tested my love… on occasion, to the limit. I used to dream up good uses for her Passover cakes: jacking up the car in the event of a flat tire; foundation stones for the new housing estate down the road; surely something the army could use during times of war (and I am thinking weapons here). Anything but eat them.

Where the heck was this recipe then?

Ready

  • 6 eggs
  • 6oz sugar
  • 6oz plain chocolate
  • 6oz butter
  • 6oz ground almonds
  • Zest of an orange
  • Zest of a lemon
  • Grand marnier (you decide how potent to make it: I use in a good slug)
  • Crème fraiche

    • Set

  • Two large mixing bowls
  • Electric whisk (for egg whites)
  • Bain marie
  • 24 inch tin (springform or, ideally, silicone)

    • Go!

  • Preheat the oven to 400°F.
  • First, make a sugar syrup by dissolving the sugar with a little water (about 50 ml).
  • Then, in a bain marie, melt the chocolate. Add the butter until it melts too.
  • Combine the sugar syrup to the chocolate mixture and allow to cool for a bit (you will be adding egg yolks soon and you don’t want them to cook!).
  • Separate the eggs.
  • Beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
  • Add the egg yolks slowly to the chocolate mixture followed by the ground almonds, zest and Grand Marnier.
  • Fold in the egg whites.
  • Pour the mixture into the tin.
  • Bake for about 25mins. The cake should be pretty soft in the middle when you take it out.
  • Serve with crème fraiche.

    • Recommendations

    You can modify the proportions for a bigger or smaller cake tin as long as you maintain the proportions of 1 egg to 1oz of sugar to 1oz of chocolate etc…

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