Flourless Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Glaze Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 9 by 2-inch spring form pan with nonstick spray.
• Put the chocolate, butter, and salt in a large microwave safe bowl. Melt in the microwave on 75 percent power for 2 minutes. Stir and microwave again until completely melted, about 2 minutes more. Alternatively, put the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl. Bring a saucepan filled with an inch or so of water to a very slow simmer; set the bowl on the pan without touching the water. Stir occasionally until melted.
• Beat the eggs and sugar with a standing or handheld mixer until light and thickened, about 8 to 10 minutes. Fold the melted chocolate into the whipped eggs until evenly combined.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out wet but not gooey, about 1 hour and 25 minutes. Remove cake from the oven and cool on a rack.
• When ready to serve remove ring from spring form mold. Dust cake with confectioners' sugar or cocoa powder. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream if desired.
• Beat the cream and vanilla in a chilled non-reactive bowl with a whisk or an electric mixer just until they hold a loose peak. (Lift the beater from the cream and look at the shape of the peak at the end of the whisk; it should hold a lazy curve.) Sift the sugar over the cream and continue to beat just until it holds a soft peak. Take care not to over beat the cream or it will be look curdy. Serve, or refrigerate covered for up to 4 hours.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Generously butter the bottom and sides of an 8-inch springform pan, or press a large sheet of foil into the bottom and up the sides of an 8-inch round cake pan, smoothing the sides, and generously butter the foil.
• Bring a few inches of water in a large saucepan to a simmer over medium heat. Set a large heatproof bowl over the saucepan and add the chocolate. When the chips look soft and melty, stir gently until smooth. Turn off the heat, and add the butter to the bowl. Stir gently until melted and smooth. Add the cocoa powder and stir until smooth, then take the bowl off the saucepan.
• Stir in the granulated sugar until incorporated, then add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla, then scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
• Bake until crackly and dry on top, and a toothpick inserted 2 inches from the edge comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. A toothpick inserted in the center should come out with some crumbs attached.
• Cool in the pan on a rack, then remove the sides of the springform pan or lift the cake out of the cake pan using the foil overhang. You can slice and serve warm or at room temperature. Or, to cut very neat slices, freeze the cooled cake until firm. Slice and warm up in the microwave or oven, if preferred. Serve the cake with whipped cream or ice cream, if you'd like. The cake can be wrapped and kept at room temperature for up to 3 days, in the refrigerator for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 1 month.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Butter 9" springform pan and line it with buttered parchment paper.
• Wrap outside of the pan with aluminum foil.
• Stir chocolate and butter in heavy sauce pan over low heat until smooth.
• Remove and cool to lukewarm, stirring often.
• Beat egg yolks and 6 tablespoons sugar in large bowl for about 3 minutes, until thick and pale.
• Folk warm chocolate into the yoke mixture.
• Folk in vanilla.
• With clean, dry beaters, whip egg whites until soft peaks form.
• Gradually add 6 tablespoons sugar, and beat until firm peaks form. Don't overbeat.
• Fold whites into chocolate mixture in three portions.
• Pour batter into pan.
• Bake until cracked and tester shows moist crumbs - about 50 minutes.
• The cake will fall as it cools.
• Press down top for even thickness.
• Use knife to cut around sides to loosen. Remove pan sides.
• Turn upside down on plate (or other) and remove paper.
• For the glaze, simmer cream and syrup together in a heavy sauce pan.
• Remove from yeat.
• Add chopped chocolate.
• Whisk until melted and smooth.
• Place cake on rack set over baking sheet. Spread ½ cup of glaze over top and sides. Freeze about 3 minutes until the glaze is almost set.
• Pour remaining glaze over the top and allow to drip artfully down the sides.
• Refrigerate until firm - about 1 hour.