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You Only Live Once Dark Chocolate
Flourless Torte
A Heavenly Valentine’s Day Treat
“If your sweetheart has a sweet tooth, you must try this recipe!”
½ cup water
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup white sugar
18 oz. bittersweet dark chocolate
1 cup unsalted butter
6 eggs
- Preheat oven to 300° F (150° C). Grease a 10.5 inch springform pan & line bottom with parchment paper.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine water, salt & sugar. Stir until completely dissolved & set aside.
- Either in the top half of a double boiler or in a microwave oven, slowly melt the bittersweet chocolate. Pour the chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer.
- Cut the butter into pieces & beat the butter into the chocolate, one piece at a time. Beat in the hot sugar-water. Slowly beat in the eggs, one at a time.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 45 minutes. The center will still look wet. Let stand at room temperature until cool, & chill to set.
Dust with icing sugar and serve with fresh berries, or raspberry sauce. Serves 16.
Suggestions:
· For a less intense chocolate taste, use a mixture of dark and milk bittersweet chocolate.
· Use cold coffee or espresso in place of the water to enhance the rich chocolate flavour.
· For a slightly lighter torte, use three whole eggs and three egg whites.
Nutritional Info per serving (1/16 of recipe)
342 Calories, 24g Fat, 112mg Cholesterol, 63mg Sodium, 27.6g Carbs,
2.4g Fibre, 4.6g Protein
Did you know? Dark chocolate--but not milk chocolate or dark chocolate eaten with milk--is a potent antioxidant,. Antioxidants gobble up free radicals, destructive molecules that are implicated in heart disease and other ailments. Findings indicate that milk may interfere with the absorption of antioxidants from chocolate and may therefore negate the potential health benefits that can be derived from eating moderate amounts of dark chocolate. Translation: Say "Dark, please," when ordering at the chocolate counter. Don't even think of washing it down with milk. Dark chocolate also contains more cacao and less sugar than milk chocolate. Cacao, the source of chocolate, contains antibacterial agents that fight tooth decay. Of course this is counteracted by the high sugar content of milk chocolate.