Flourless Chocolate Torte

Happy Belated July Fourth! 

My friends and I grilled food, drank beer, and hung out on Lake Washington Beach. There were fireworks going off around the neighborhood and the greatest thing of all: it was sunny!!!! 


It's supposed to be nice like this all week. I have a Golden Gardens beach trip planned for Saturday. Hopefully this will not interfere with my serger purchase. That's right, World, I am buying a serger. For sewing. I will serge most everything I own because sergers are the best. Truth.


In other news, I made food. It was July 4th after all. So while my roomie was grilling up a storm, I was in the kitchen using up the chocolate I hoard from my job. This recipe comes from the book "Make the bread, Buy the Butter." I got it off amazon.com a few weeks ago. I'll let you know how it goes. But if this recipe is any indication, it will be a great book! 


Flourless Chocolate Torte: 
from "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese. 


Ingredients: 
- 1/2 pound of chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 pound of butter
- 5 eggs, separated
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1 tps bourbon


Directions: 

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a springform pan
2. Create a double broiler  (you can Google it if you don't know what that means). Melt butter and chocolate. Set aside. 
3. Whip egg white til stiff. (see Meringue recipe). Put in clean bowl and set aside. 
4. In the same bowl where you whipped the white, add the yolks and beat til lighter in color. Add in  sugar, bourbon, and salt. Whisk together.
5. Mix half the chocolate mixture in to yolk mixture. This will slowly bring up the temperature of the yolks. Mix in the rest. 
6. Fold the whites into the chocolate mixture. 
7. Place in pan and cook in oven for 40 mins.
8. When it's down, take out of the oven. The topped should looked a bit cracked. Let cool to room temperature. Eat as is or add whipped cream! 

Notes:

- I used a mix of 70%, 84%, and 91% chocolate because that's what was in my pantry. Which means that this is a straight-up brick of chocolate! 

- I didn't use bourbon. But now I just realized that there was Krakken spiced rum in the house. What in God's name was I thinking! 

- In other news, I didn't use a springform pan. I don't own one. I just placed this in a regular casserole dish and it was fine! 

Enjoy!