Gooey Chocolate Deliverance

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 9 egg yolks
• 1 1/8 cups unsalted butter
• 10 ounces unsweetened chocolate
• 5 egg whites
• 1 cup shaved semisweet chocolate

Recipe

• 1 butter the bottom only of a round 8 inch pan. set oven rack in center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 with electric beaters, slowly beat sugar and yolks for 3 to 4 minutes. it is important to dissolve the sugar completely.
• 3 melt the butter and cool. in the top of a double boiler over barely simmering water, melt the chocolate (or microwave, uncovered, on medium, stirring every 20 to 30 seconds after the first 2 1/2 minutes, until only a small solid chunk of remains). remove from heat and stir until smooth and cooled.
• 4 cream the melted butter into the yolk-sugar mixture. then stir in the melted chocolate.
• 5 beat the egg whites to soft peaks. with a big rubber spatula, fold 1/4 of the whites into the chocolate batter, then gently fold in the remaining whites, using wide strokes, until no lumps remain.
• 6 put 2/3 of the batter into the buttered pan and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. refridgerate the remaining batter.
• 7 remove cake from oven and cool in pan 5 minutes. run a knife around the edge of the cake to loosen. invert onto platter or cake pedestal.
• 8 frost with remaining batter by spreading most of it evenly all over the cake, then you can pipe decorations around rim and top (you can use a ziplock baggie,fill,then snip off a corner of bag to use as a decorators bag). sprinkle all over with shaved chocolate.
• 9 to cut: cut into wedges, using a knife dipped into hot water, then wiped dry.
• 10 12-16 servings.