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Martin’s Incredible Flourless Chocolate Cake with English Custard Sauce
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Martin Howard’s chocolate work is legendary. Over the years he has created thousands of spectacular, sometimes whimsical desserts and cakes that always surprise and astonish and often elicit awe from those lucky enough to see and to taste them. Amazingly, Martin’s desserts always taste as good as they look. Martin draws inspiration from everything: the sea, the skyline, a sunrise, or even the Statue of Liberty. Often his elaborate creations incorporate three or four of the desserts in this chapter that are here offered as separate recipes.
Almost pure chocolate, the intensity of this cake puts chocolate lovers in seventh heaven. The vanilla sauce provides a stunning contrast.
Yield : Makes one 9-inch cake
Ingredients
- 1¼ cups sugar
- 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, Valrhona or comparable quality, cut into small chunks
- 8 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate, cut into small chunks
- ½ pound unsalted butter at room temperature, cut into small chunks
- 1 tablespoon Grand Marnier
- 7 extra large eggs
- 1 recipe English Custard Sauce
Equipment:
- 9-inch cake pan, 2 inches deep
- Nonstick spray
- Baking parchment
Directions
Preheat the oven to 300°F.
Cut a piece of parchment to fit the bottom of the cake pan, spray the pan with nonstick spray, and line it with the paper. Press the paper flat and spray the top surface.
Put 1 cup of the sugar in a saucepan with ¼ cup water and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Turn off the heat.
Heat water in the bottom of a double boiler over medium heat, put all the chocolate in the top, and melt it over hot water, stirring so it melts evenly. Make sure all the chocolate is melted. Remove the chocolate from the heat and, stirring constantly with a rubber spatula, add the butter bit by bit until is has melted smoothly into the chocolate. Make sure all the butter has melted, then add the sugar syrup and stir it in well. When all is well combined, stir in the Grand Marnier.
Beat the eggs with the remaining ¼ cup sugar until they are thick and foamy. This will take 5 or 6 minutes in an electric mixer, a little longer by hand. Add about 1/3 of the beaten eggs to the chocolate mixture and, using a rubber spatula, fold them in gently but thoroughly; then add the chocolate mixture to the remaining eggs and fold the two together. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
Put the cake pan into a larger roasting pan and add water to come a third of the way up the side of the cake pan. Bake for 1 hour. The cake is done when it feels springy to the touch and is just beginning to come away from the sides of the pan. Turn the cake out onto a cake plate and peel off the parchment. Serve warm with English Custard Sauce.
© 1995, 1998 Waldy Malouf
Nutritional Information
Nutrients per serving
Nutritional information is based on 12 servings and does not include English Custard Sauce. For nutritional information on English Custard Sauce, please see link above.
405 kcal
4 % daily value
0 % daily value
6 % daily value
241 mg
77 mg
7 g
26 g
4 g
33 g
179 mg
54 mg
19 g
31 g
23 % daily value
