Truffle Cake Without Flour

Due to its velvety and creamy structure,

this cake is deservedly called the Truffle.

Special taste gives physalis.

The highlight of this cake - cooking without flour.

If you are a fan of chocolate try this recipe.

For сake:

• 450 grams black chocolate (80 percent cacao). You can use chocolate with 60 percent cacao

• 250 grams butter

• 9 eggs

• 100 grams sugar

• 1 gram citric acid

For baking form:

• 20 grams butter (room temperature)

• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder

For decoration:

• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder

• 10 berries - physalis (you can substitute physalis for almost any berries or fruits)

• baking form (round, diametr 20 сm)

• pan № 1 (with a thick bottom)

• pan № 2 (for water bath) - should be larger in diameter than the pan № 1

• 2 large deep bowls

• 2 small deep bowls

• 3 plates

• a cup

• a mixer (hand or automatic)

• a silicone spoon

• a knife

• a foil

• Wrap the baking form inside with foil.

• Smear the form with soft butter (20 grams butter).

• Then sprinkle cocoa powder (1 tablespoon cocoa powder).

For a water bath:

• pour water into the pan № 2 at half its capacity;

• put it on the stove;

• bring water to a boil.

Meanwhile:

• break the whole chocolate into small pieces and put in pan № 1 (with a thick bottom);

• chop up the butter with a knife and put in pan № 1 too.

When water boils in the pan № 2, put the pan № 1 on it.

Сhocolate and butter will gradually melt.

During this process stir the ingredients in the pan № 1.

Separate eggs whites from egg yolks into different large deep bowls.

Add sugar to the bowl with egg yolks and beat with a mixer.

Beat until sugar is completely dissolved.

Beaten egg yolks with sugar must look like foam.

Add citric acid to the bowl with eggs whites and beat with a mixer.

Beat it into a fluffy mass.

Add melted chocolate and butter to beated egg yolks.

Mix well until you get smooth mass.

Use for this operation a silicone spoon.

Add whipped egg whites to mass and gentle stir.

The finished dough has a smooth and dense texture.

Spread the dough into a baking form. Use a silicone spoon for this operation.

• Put the baking form into a cold oven.

• Bake a cake during 35 minutes at a temperature of 150 ºC. (150 ºC = 302 ºF).

• When the baking time has expired, do not remove the cake from the oven during 5 minutes.

• Take the baking form from the oven.

• Don't remove the cake from baking form, because it may fall apart.

• Cool baking form (with cake) at room temperature (2-3 hours). Then transfer it to the refrigerator for 10 hours for complete cooling.

• Only after cooling the cake can be removed from the baking form.

• Sprinkle the cake with cocoa powder (1 tablespoon cocoa powder).

• Decorate using physalis (10 berries).

You can decorate with something other, depending on your mood or taste.