Chocolate Almond Flourless Cake & My Xxx For 2012 Recipe Projection List

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm non large on making New Year's resolutions, are you? I don't actually similar to brand them because thence I experience similar a failure when I don't follow through ... which is commonly the case. Instead, I similar to laid upwardly piffling projection goals for myself at the initiative off of the novel yr ... things I'd similar to instruct to ... but that I won't stress out close if I don't.

Like my 50 recipes, together with I solely got through close one-half of them. So, I decided to scale the listing dorsum for this year. Thirty should endure doable!

And estimate what?! I've already done 1 of the recipes on the "30 for 2012" Project list! ... this rich-and-delicious Chocolate Almond Flourless Cake. I'm thence proud of myself for already tackling 1 of my projection goals.

Chocolate flourless cake is 1 of those desserts that I've ever seen on eating theatre menus, but had never attempted myself. I don't know why ... I only hadn't. So, I decided to lay it on "my list" this year.

One of my other goals this yr is to contain to a greater extent than whole grain baking into my line-up. Mark together with I switched over to all whole grains inwards our pastas and other store-bought goods a few years ago, but I haven't actually made swell strides inwards incorporating whole grains into my personal baking yet. So, I've decided this is 1 of my projection goals for this yr ... to a greater extent than whole-grain baking ... not a resolution, heed you lot (remember, I don't brand resolutions) ... only a goal. And since you lot utilization finely soil nuts inwards this cake together with no flour, this cake counts as whole grain!

Start this cake yesteryear finely grinding about almonds inwards a nutrient processor. Or, if you lot are able to buy almond repast inwards your local store, utilization that. I totally had about almond repast from Trader Joe's inwards my freezer together with completely forgot close it until afterward I had already soil upwardly my almonds. Oh well.

Finely soil almonds serve every bit the "flour" for this cake

Combine the soil almonds amongst melted semi-sweet chocolate (yum!), about sugar, egg yolks, sour cream, together with a few other things ...

Semi-sweet chocolate & other proficient stuff

... together with thence gently crease inwards about beaten egg whites.

In instruct the egg whites ... endure gentle

Bake it upwardly inwards a springform pan, together with you'll halt upwardly amongst a rich-and-delicious cake amongst a texture reminiscent of a light, fluffy brownie. Mmm, mmm, it's good. Do endure aware though, you'll "feel" the almond pieces when you're eating this.

Yummy rich chocolate cake

The cake volition ascent upwardly quite a flake piece it's inwards the oven, but thence autumn drastically 1 time removed from the heat. It'll endure solely close 1 or ii inches thick 1 time it falls. It's supposed to endure similar that.

This is how thick the cake is 1 time it's fallen

Serve upwardly slices amongst a dusting of powdered sugar, a few fresh raspberries, together with a sprinkling of slivered almonds ... and, voila! ... you've got a beautiful dessert all dressed to impress.

An adorned slice

Then dig in! I dug correct inwards during my photograph shoot ... couldn't expression until I was all done staging the pictures.

Digging inwards during the photograph shoot

The photograph shoot piece didn't fifty-fifty arrive dorsum to the kitchen.

All gone!!

Chocolate Almond Flourless Cake
Source: Adapted from Prevention Healthy Cooking: Lose Weight the Smart Low-Carb Way's Chocolate Hazelnut Flourless Cake
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
ii T. butter
three T. unsweetened cocoa powder, divided
1/2 c. almonds, soil (or a piffling flake less than a 1/2 loving cup of almond meal)
8 T. sugar, divided
three oz. semi-sweet chocolate
1/2 c. reduced-fat sour cream
ii egg yolks
1 T. amaretto
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
five egg whites, at room temperature
1/4 tsp. salt
Fresh raspberries, slivered almonds, together with powdered sugar for garnish

Directions
1. Generously coat an 8" or 9" springform pan amongst close ii teaspoons of the butter together with dust amongst 1 tablespoon of the cocoa powder. Do non tap out the excess cocoa pulverization - exit it inwards the bottom of of the pan.

2. In a nutrient processor, procedure the almonds amongst 1 tablespoon of the saccharide until really finely ground. (If using almond meal, you lot tin dismiss omit this step. Use only a piffling flake less than a 1/2 loving cup of the almond meal.)

3. In a pocket-size saucepan over really depression heat, or inwards the overstep of a double boiler, melt the chocolate together with remaining better, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Remove from oestrus together with house the chocolate mixture inwards a large mixing bowl. Add the almond mixture, sour cream, egg yolks, amaretto, vanilla, cinnamon, five tablespoons of sugar, together with the remaining ii tablespoons of cocoa powder. Stir until good blended.

4. In about other large mixing bowl, utilization an electrical mixer on high speed to crunch the egg whites together with tabular array salt until foamy. Gradually add together the remaining ii tablespoons of sugar, beating until the egg whites brand rigid peaks when the beaters are lifted.

5. Stir 1/4 of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten the chocolate batter. Then, gently crease inwards the remaining egg whites. Spoon into the prepared pan together with shine the top.

6. Bake at 350 degrees for xxx minutes. The cake is done when it has risen, is dry out on the top, together with a toothpick inserted inwards the middle comes out amongst only a few moist crumbs. As the cake cools, it volition autumn to endure close 1" to 2" thick.

7. Loosen the edges of the cake amongst a knife together with take away the springform pan sides. Serve each piece amongst a dusting of powdered sugar, a few raspberries, together with a sprinkling of slivered almonds.

Enjoy!

Here's my "30 for 2012" Project list... xxx recipes I'd similar to brand yesteryear the halt of the year.

Stay tuned for posts close the ones that plough out okay. And I'll update this listing on my "30 for 2012" Project tab amongst ship service links every bit I function through them.

1. Mango Salsa
2. Spinach Cheese Swirls
3. Chocolate Chip "Puffins" (Pumpkin muffins, instruct it??)
4. Granola
5. Honey-Whole Wheat Biscuits
6. Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Waffles
7. Sourdough Bread (Oh my! This 1 scares me!!)
8. Caramel-Rum Squares
9. Coffee Thumbprint Cookies
10. Salted Cashew-Crunch Cookies
11. Barefoot Contessa Coconut Cupcakes
12. Neopolitan Cupcakes
13. Persimmon Cupcakes & Frosting (With wild persimmons from my mother-in-law's farm - yum.)
14. Baked Bananas amongst Rum Sauce
15. Chocolate Almond Flourless Cake
16. Coconut Pie
17. Fudge Pie amongst Peanut Butter Cookie Crust
18. Maple-Brown Sugar Pudding Cake
19. Shoo Fly Pie
20. Whole Wheat Gingerbread
21. Crab, Shrimp, & Wild Rice Casserole
22. Kiwifruit & Pineapple Marinated Chicken
23. Green Bean, Walnut, & Feta Cheese Salad
24. Mushroom Gouda Chowder
25. Stovetop Chicken Lasagna Soup
26. White Corn & Rosemary Soup
27. Dill Pickles (canned ... I've never canned before. I'm a piffling flake scared.)
28. Mashed Squash Casserole
29. Sauteed Cabbage
30. Sherried Fruit Bake