Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and if you want to “Wow” your sweetie… then I have the cake for you! This flourless chocolate cake is the most amazing, delicious, DECADENT cake ever.
I first had this cake with my family when I was little at Ruth’s Chris restaurant. We thought it was so good that we didn’t stop talking about it. So my mom decided she was going to make it. She tried countless recipes until she finally found the right one. Now I make it for our family.
It had been awhile since I made it, so I decided to bring it on Christmas Day. (after we open gifts, we head over to my in-laws house where everyone meets up) I had forgotten how much everyone loves this cake, people were THRILLED to see it back!
Here’s what you will need:
8oz. bittersweet chocolate
4oz. semisweet chocolate
6 eggs
1 cup of sugar
2 sticks of butter cut up into small pieces
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| To prep the springform pan I put a large piece of parchment paper on the bottom, seal it, then cut off the excess paper. |
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 400, place parchment paper on the bottom of a 9-inch round Springform pan
and butter the bottom and sides of the pan.
- Cover the outside bottom of the pan with foil, since you will be putting it into a water bath to bake. If you don’t do this water will seep into your cake and ruin it! 🙁
- Make a double boiler, by putting a heatproof bowl over a pan with simmering water inside. Put the butter & chocolate the bowl. Let it all melt together, whisking occasionally.
- In another bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar.
- Once the chocolate and butter are melted, stir it slowly into the eggs bowl.
- Pour the chocolate batter into your springform.
- Place the pan into a larger pan into the oven. Slowly pour water into the larger pan, until it reaches a little less than halfway up the cake pan.
- Cover the top with foil and bake for about 1 and 1/2 hours. (this kind of depends on your oven)
- When the cake appears to have “set” take it out of the oven.
- Take the foil off of the top and the side, and dab up any water that may have leaked into the side of the springform pan.
- Once it sits out for about 20 minutes, put it in the refrigerator.
- Serve it up!!
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| YUM! Chocolate! |
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| The water bath is the trickiest part for me! |
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| You can see how the edges are “set.” The center may look a bit wobbly, but it will continue to set as it cools. |
My hubby makes a really good raspberry sauce to go with this cake, it also goes great with whip cream and ice cream. The original recipe is made with ALL bittersweet chocolate, but we mix it with semisweet now, since the kids like it better that way. I totally forgot to take a pic of this cake before everyone hacked into it! (it was Christmas Day, things were a little hectic! ha!)
This cake does take a bit of effort, but it is really worth it. Your guests will be talking about it for years to come!
Yum Yum YUM! Pinning for Valentine's Day!
Its so yummy too! I just wish I would have remembered to take some decent 'after' pics! ha!
Looks delicious! Gonna pin because I have to try it!
It is def good! It's almost like a giant truffle!
This cake looks beyond delicious!!! You gave me a chocolate cake craving now 😉
haha sorry!! We actually left it at my inlaws house, since I didn't want to eat all the leftovers myself!
Wow, that looks soo good! And definitely a great idea for Valentines day!!
It feels like a fancy cake for sure, everyone is always impressed!
Wow looks like we both had chocolate on the brain today. This looks like heaven…raspberry sauce with homemade whip cream….wow!
Yes but you had healthy chocolate! This is far from that.. 😉
Anyone who loves chocolate would love this cake. And doesn't everybody love chocolate?
Everyone SHOULD love chocolate! What's not to love? Have a wonderful weekend!
I need to try this.
Let me know how it goes! It is really good! 🙂
Definitely need to try this too! Seems delicious! 😀
its so good!! I wouldn't take the time to make it if it wasn't worth it! 😉 Have a great week!
That looks great! Is it cakey or fudgy? Or neither? Or both? Pinning!
Fudgy for sure.. it is almost like a truffle! Thanks for pinning!! 🙂 Have a great week!
Yum!! That looks SO delicious. I don't know if I could stop myself from eating it all. haha
Lauren, I believe you- this DOES look like the BEST flourless chocolate cake!! When will your husband be sharing his raspberry sauce recipe? Thank you so much for linking this up with us at Treasure Box Tuesday- pinned!
Your Flourless Chocolate Cake looks amazing, it really does look like the best! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
I had this at Ruth’s Chris last night and it was very tasty! Reminds me of chocolate cheesecake. I think theirs might have coffee in it but since I’m not a fan of coffee I planned on leaving it out. Have you ever tried this recipe in the instant pot? That’s how I make cheesecakes now so I might give it a try.