Chocolate Cake Without Flour

Ingredients

• 125 g bittersweet chocolate (70% cacao)
• 100 g butter
• 150 g cane sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 40 g cocoa powder
• cocoa powder (for dusting)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Coarsely chop the chocolate and melt it with the butter over a hot but not boiling water bath, stirring occasionally.

2. 2.

   Remove from heat and stir in the sugar.

3. 3.

   Lightly whisk the eggs and fold them into the chocolate mixture.

4. 4.

   Stir in the cocoa powder.

5. 5.

   Pour everything into a 20 cm (8 inch) springform lined with parchment paper and gently tap to level.

6. 6.

   Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (160 °C fan, gas: level 2–3) for 25–30 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then open the springform, loosen the cake from the rim with a knife, and carefully transfer it to a plate.

7. 7.

   Mix powdered sugar and cocoa powder together and dust the cake generously over the top.