Chocolate Delight

"Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker."

- Author Unknown

With Valentine's Day just around the corner - we thought we would share our recipe for Flourless Chocolate Cake with all of you... Hope you enjoy it as much as we do at the Mountain Lake Lodge!

Directions:

Preheat oven to 300°F.

Grease one 10-inch cake pan. Set pan aside.

You will also need boiling water and a pan larger than the 10-inch cake pan for baking the Flourless Chocolate Cake.

In a small saucepan over medium heat combine:

1/2 cup water, 1/4 tablespoon salt, and 3/4 cup sugar. Stir until completely dissolved. Set aside.

In a double boiler melt 18 - 1 oz squares of bittersweet chocolate. Pour the chocolate into a mixing bowl.

Cut 1 cup unsalted butter into small pieces. Beat butter into the melted chocolate with a hand mixer one piece of butter at a time. 

Next, beat the hot-sugar-water into the chocolate mixture.

Then (one egg at a time) beat 6 eggs into the chocolate mixture.

Pour the batter into the prepared 10-inch pan.

For baking, put this 10-inch cake pan into the larger pan. Fill the larger pan with boiling water halfway up the sides of the cake pan. 

Bake cake in the water bath at 300°F for 45 minutes. The center will still look wet when finished.

Chill cake overnight in the cake pan.

To unmold, dip bottom of the cake pan in hot water for 10 seconds and invert onto a serving plate.

"For those of us who can't tolerate wheat or gluten... it is oh! so!! divine!!!"