Chocolate, Just Say Yes!
Ingredients:
- 4 oz Fine-Quality Bittersweet Chocolate (Not Unsweetened)
- ½ Cup Unsalted Butter
- ¾ Cup Sugar
- 3 Large Eggs
- ½ Cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Plus Additional for Sprinkling
Directions:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 375°F and butter an 8-inch round baking pan. Line bottom with a round of wax paper.
Step 2: Chop chocolate into small pieces. In a double boiler or metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate with butter, stirring, until smooth. Remove top of double boiler or bowl from heat and whisk sugar into chocolate mixture.
Step 3: Add eggs and whisk well. Sift 1/2 cup cocoa powder over chocolate mixture and whisk until just combined.
Step 4: Pour batter into pan and bake in middle of oven 25 minutes, or until top has formed a thin crust.
Step 5: Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto a serving plate.
Dust cake with additional cocoa powder if desired. (Once cooled cake will store in an airtight container up to a week.)
