Flourless Chocolate Cake With Caramel Sauce

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 cup butter, cut into pieces
• 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips (about 1 1/2 cups)
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup sifted unsweetened cocoa powder
• 6 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• vanilla ice cream

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 butter 10-inch springform pan.
• 3 line bottom with wax paper.
• 4 stir butter and chocolate in heavy large saucepan over low heat until melted.
• 5 mix sugar and cocoa in large bowl.
• 6 add eggs, whisk until well blended.
• 7 whisk in chocolate-butter mixture.
• 8 pour batter into prepared pan.
• 9 bake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 45 minutes.
• 10 cool cake completely in pan on rack.
• 11 release cake from pan.
• 12 for caramel sauce, stir sugar, water and lemon juice in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until sugar dissolves.
• 13 increase heat.
• 14 boil without stirring until syrup is deep amber color, about 7 minutes.
• 15 remove from heat.
• 16 add cream.
• 17 return to low heat.
• 18 stir until smooth.
• 19 add butter, whisk until smooth.
• 20 cut cake into wedges.
• 21 if desired, arrange wedges on baking sheet and rewarm in 350 oven for 10 minutes.
• 22 rewarm caramel sauce over medium-low heat, stirring often.
• 23 place warm cake on plate and drizzle with caramel.
• 24 serve with vanilla ice cream.