Flourless Chocolate Cake Trifle

Mmm…this was so delicious! What started out as a flourless chocolate cake that REFUSED to be removed from it’s baking pan, turned into a beautiful, tasty trifle. 🙂 This is perfect for those on a gluten free diet, but those that can tolerate gluten will love it as well.

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Ingredients:
1/2 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup white sugar
18 (1 ounce) squares bittersweet chocolate
1 cup unsalted butter
6 eggs

NOTE: I used 1 1/2 pkg of milk chocolate chips, and only 1/2 cup white sugar. The water can be replaced with strong coffee. Extracts, such as mint or almond could be added to the cake as well.

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease one 10 inch round cake pan and set aside.
2. In a small saucepan over medium heat combine the water, salt and sugar. Stir until completely dissolved and set aside.
3. Either in the top half of a double boiler or in a microwave oven melt the bittersweet chocolate. Pour the chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer.
4. Cut the butter into pieces and beat the butter into the chocolate, 1 piece at a time. Beat in the hot sugar-water. Slowly beat in the eggs, one at a time.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Have a pan larger than the cake pan ready, put the cake pan in the larger pan and fill the pan with boiling water halfway up the sides of the cake pan.
6. Bake cake in the water bath at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 45 minutes. The center will still look wet. Chill cake overnight in the pan. To unmold, dip the bottom of the cake pan in hot water for 10 seconds and invert onto a serving plate.

At this point, if your cake decides that it doesn’t want to come out of the baking pan in a complete piece, like mine did, you can use a melon baller or small cookie scoop to form your cake into balls.

Layer the cake balls, fresh strawberries & sweetened whipped cream in a glass serving bowl (I ended up using a square vase). Repeat. Top with some fresh cut strawberries.

Source: AllRecipes.com

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