Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake
Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake

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Here is where we learn that flourless chocolate cake can mean many different things, depending on ratios and technique. Both this recipe and Rose Levy Beranbaum's Chocolate Oblivion Truffle Torte are This one was a signature dessert of the late, beloved writer and cooking instructor Richard Sax. Richard Sax's poofy soufflé of a chocolate cake intentionally caves in the center, leaving a craggy, wafer-like rim behind and a mousse-y hollow that you.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook richard sax's chocolate cloud cake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake:
  1. Get Dark Chocolate Preferably Magnum, 225g + More For Garnishing
  2. Make ready 110 g Unsalted Butter Softened,
  3. Take Pinch Sea Salt,
  4. Take 4 Egg Yolks,
  5. Prepare 2 Eggs,
  6. Prepare 100 g Dark Muscovado Sugar,
  7. Make ready Fresh Orange Zest, 1 Orange
  8. Take 2 TBSP Cognac,
  9. Get 4 Egg Whites,
  10. Prepare 100 g Granulated Sugar,
  11. Take 250 g Heavy Whipping Cream,
  12. Make ready 2 TBSP Icing Sugar,
  13. Prepare 1 TSP Pure Vanilla Paste,

A melting, dark, flourless, chocolate base, the sort that sinks damply on cooling. Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack; the cake will sink as it cools, forming a crater with high sides. WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING: At serving time, whip the cream with the confectioners' sugar and vanilla until not quite stiff. With a spatula, carefully fill the crater of the cake with the whipped cream, pushing.

Instructions to make Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake:
  1. Line cake pan with parchment paper at the bottom. - - Do not use any butter to grease the pan. You can use water droplets to prevent the paper from moving. - - Preheat oven to 175 degree celsius or 350 fahrenheit. - - Prepare a double boiler. - - Melt chocolate in the double boiler.
  2. Magnum dark chocolate contains raw cacao nibs and cocoa butter. If you can’t get your hands on Magnum, add 1 TBSP of finely chopped raw cacao nibs.*
  3. Remove from heat and add in butter and salt. - - Stir until the butter has melted completely. - - In a large bowl, add in egg yolks, eggs and sugar. - - Using a hand or stand mixer, whisk until well combined and sugar has dissolved.
  4. Fold in the chocolate mixture, cognac and orange zest. - - Gently fold to combine well. - - In another large bowl, add egg whites. - - Using a hand or stand mixer, whisk until light and frothy.
  5. Add in sugar and continue whisking until glossy and soft peaks form. - - Gently fold the egg whites, in quarter portions, into the yolks mixture until fully incorporated. - - Carefully transfer into the prepared cake pan. - - Wack into the oven and bake for 35 to 40 mins.
  6. The sides should rise and crack. The center should not be wobbly. - - Do not bake more than 40 mins. - - Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely. - - As it cools, the center will collapse. That is a good sign.
  7. When ready to serve, in a large chilled bowl, add in whipping cream, sugar and vanilla. - - Whisk until soft peaks. - - Unmold the chocolate cake onto serving plate.
  8. Spread the whipped cream onto the cake. - - Grate some more dark chocolate to garnish the cake. - - Slice and serve immediately or chilled.
  9. This is the version which I had changed. I actually made this for my daughter's birthday. I personally find that the chocolate whipped cream a bit too much and it doesn't resemble the "cloud".

Richard Sax's poofy soufflé of a chocolate cake intentionally caves in the center, leaving a craggy, wafer-like rim behind and a mousse-y hollow that you fill up with cold whipped cream. The effect is dramatic, bold and impossibly delicious. As Richard Sax says, "intensity, then relief, in each bite". The cake itself is as richly and rewardingly sustaining: a melting, dark, flourless, chocolate base, the sort that sinks damply on cooling; the fallen centre then cloudily filled with softly whipped cream and sprinkled with cocoa powder. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

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