Any excuse to make my favourite flourless chocolate cake, and serve it with a tangy sweet passion fruit sauce
Ingredients
For the cake
200g 70% dark chocolate, finely chopped
140g caster sugar (white or golden)
125mls boiling water
170g butter, cubed
4 eggs, separated
¼ tsp salt
For the Sauce
5 large passion fruit (around 8 tbsp juice)
1 lemon, juiced (approx 2 tbsp juice)
2 tbsp white caster sugar
knob butter
To Serve
1 passion fruit, seeds scooped out
Crème fraîche
Instructions
Flourless Chocolate Cake
Preheat the oven to 160°C(fan)/180°C/350°F. Grease and line a 10. inch spring form cake tin.
Add the chopped chocolate and sugar into a food processor, and blitz until broken down into crumbs. Add the boiling water, cubed butter, egg yolks and salt. Blitz again until you end up with a smooth batter.
In a large bowl, whisk the 4 egg whites until stiff peaks form, then add them into the food processor. Process very briefly (around 10 seconds) until the whites have just mixed in. You don't want to knock all that air out!
Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake in the oven for 45 minutes until the top feels set and doesn't give too much when pressed. The cake will crack, and sink quite a lot as it cools - this is all fine! When fully cooled remove from the tin and chill in the fridge until ready to eat. Serve cold!
Passion fruit sauce
To make the sauce, split your passion fruits in 2 and scoop out the seeds. Pass through a sieve, to separate the seeds from the juice, discard the seeds
Transfer the passion fruit juice to a small pan, add in the lemon juice and sugar. Stir and cook over a medium-high heat for 4-5 minutes, till the sugar has dissolved and thickened the juice into a thick drizzle able syrup. Add a knob of butter to add gloss. Transfer to a small container and chill till ready to use.
To serve
Drizzle a little passion fruit sauce over each serving plate, top with a wedge of cake, a scoop of crème fraîche and a few extra fresh passion fruit seeds
Recipe by Ceri Jones Chef at https://cerijoneschef.com/flourless-chocolate-cake-with-passion-fruit-sauce/