Recipe: To Try At Home Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake

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Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake. Here is where we learn that flourless chocolate cake can mean many different things, depending on ratios and technique. Both this recipe and the preceding one from Rose Levy Beranbaum are known and loved as flourless chocolate cakes and use the same basic three ingredients (eggs, chocolate, and. The late Richard Sax, celebrated cookbook author and champion of home cooks the world over, inspired this flourless chocolate cake—a riff on his iconic chocolate cloud cake.

I made this cake for my daughter's birthdays and on serval occasions.

I had tried changing the recipe a bit with a chocolate.

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You can cook Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake

1. You need of Dark Chocolate Preferably Magnum, 225g + More For Garnishing.

2. It’s 110 g of Unsalted Butter Softened,.

3. Prepare Pinch of Sea Salt,.

4. You need 4 of Egg Yolks,.

5. You need 2 of Eggs,.

6. It’s 100 g of Dark Muscovado Sugar,.

7. It’s of Fresh Orange Zest, 1 Orange.

8. You need 2 TBSP of Cognac,.

9. It’s 4 of Egg Whites,.

10. You need 100 g of Granulated Sugar,.

11. You need 250 g of Heavy Whipping Cream,.

12. You need 2 TBSP of Icing Sugar,.

13. Prepare 1 TSP of Pure Vanilla Paste,.

Now I know why it's so famous.

It pushes aside every other flourless cake or lava cake or fallen cake because it's simply better.

The late Richard Sax, celebrated cookbook author and champion of home cooks the world over, inspired this flourless chocolate cake—a riff on his iconic chocolate cloud cake.

On days when I want the warmth of the hearth rather than the hurly burly of the city streets I stay in and read cookery books, and this recipe comes from just the sort of book that gives most succour, Classic Home Desserts by Richard Sax.

Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake instructions

1. Line cake pan with parchment paper at the bottom.

Do not use any butter to grease the pan. You can use water droplets to prevent the paper from moving.

Preheat oven to 175 degree celsius or 350 fahrenheit.

Prepare a double boiler.

Melt chocolate in the double boiler..

1. Magnum dark chocolate contains raw cacao nibs and cocoa butter. If you can’t get your hands on Magnum, add 1 TBSP of finely chopped raw cacao nibs.*.

2. Remove from heat and add in butter and salt.

Stir until the butter has melted completely.

In a large bowl, add in egg yolks, eggs and sugar.

Using a hand or stand mixer, whisk until well combined and sugar has dissolved..

1. Fold in the chocolate mixture, cognac and orange zest.

Gently fold to combine well.

In another large bowl, add egg whites.

Using a hand or stand mixer, whisk until light and frothy..

1. Add in sugar and continue whisking until glossy and soft peaks form.

Gently fold the egg whites, in quarter portions, into the yolks mixture until fully incorporated.

Carefully transfer into the prepared cake pan.

Wack into the oven and bake for 35 to 40 mins..

1. The sides should rise and crack. The center should not be wobbly.

Do not bake more than 40 mins.

Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely.

As it cools, the center will collapse. That is a good sign..

1. When ready to serve, in a large chilled bowl, add in whipping cream, sugar and vanilla.

Whisk until soft peaks.

Unmold the chocolate cake onto serving plate..

1. Spread the whipped cream onto the cake.

Grate some more dark chocolate to garnish the cake.

Slice and serve immediately or chilled..

1. This is the version which I had changed. I actually made this for my daughters birthday. I personally find that the chocolate whipped cream a bit too much and it doesn't resemble the "cloud"..

The cake itself is as richly and rewardingly sustaining: a melting, dark, flourless, chocolate base, the sort that sinks damply on cooling; the fallen centre.

Richard Sax's poofy soufflé of a chocolate cake intentionally caves in the center, leaving a craggy, wafer-like rim behind and a mousse-y hollow that you fill up with cold whipped cream.

The effect is dramatic, bold and impossibly delicious.

This is a flourless chocolate cake recipe given to me by my late friend Richard Sax.

Not only is it a superbly rich and beautiful cake, because of its flourlessness it has become a Passover tradition.