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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Flourless Cake - (can make it a Flourless Bailey's Cake)

Flourless Cake with option to make it Bailey's Flourless Cake

Heat oven to 300 degrees
9" Inch Spring form- cover with butter or oil spray
Take your favorite cocoa powder and cover butter with cocoa powder
(you can also use confectioners sugar to coat pan)
4 tablespoons butter set pan aside
10 oz. semi sweet or dark chocolate
1 teaspoon vanilla
9 eggs separate yokes from whites
1/4 cup sugar  or 3 tablespoons Agave Nectar
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar

In a double melt butter chocolate until smooth.
(also optional to add 1/4 cup Bailey's if you want a Flour less Bailey's cake) 
Remove from heat. Whisk egg yokes into chocolate
In a mixer beat egg whites and cream of tartar until peaks form
Add vanilla and sugar (or Agave) and beat for 1 minute
Gentle fold chocolate mixture into egg whites try to keep it fluffy. Pour into spring form
Bake uncovered for 50 minutes
Cake should not wobble when done (it should be firm like a cheesecake)
(placing pan in aluminum and then in a water bath is optional)
also optional: serve with lowfat lactaid homemade ice cream -(see recipe)

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