This cake offers up everything you want in the form of chocolate
Recipe Category: Baking
Makes enough for: 1cake
All Rights Reserved: Adapted from The French Affair, Jan Hendrik Van Der Westhuizen
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Ingredients
250gdark sugar free chocolate
80gsoft butter
4eggs, separated
105gfructose
30gcassava flour
1pinchfine salt
Fresh berries and cream to serve
Method
Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
Place the chocolate and butter into a glass bowl and melt in the microwave *
Place the egg yolks and the fructose into a large mixing bowl and whisk to ribbon stage
Add the melted chocolate and whisk to combine completely
Sift the flour and salt into the chocolate mixture and fold in until completely combined
Place the egg whites into a mixing bowl and whisk until they form soft peaks
Add a third of the egh whites into the batter and whisk gently to combine
Gently fold in the rest of the egg whites in two lots to combine
Pour the batter into a lined 23cm spring-form tin
Bake for 20 minutes and remove from the oven
Leave to cool for 10 minutes in the tin before turning out
Serve with fresh berries and cream
Notes
* be sure to do this in 30 second increments so that you do not burn the chocolate. You want it just melted and then use the residual heat to completely melt the chocolate