Nouvelle gateau

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
6 ounces Butter At Room Temperature,
Plus Butter For Greasing
The Cake Pan.
5 ounces Semisweet Chocolate
1 cup Coffee, Reduced To 3 TBLS
4½ tablespoon Unsifted Unbleached Flour
(This measurement is right.
Very little flour is used
In this cake)
¾ cup Sugar
Pinch Of Salt
¼ cup Rum, Meyers Preferred
6 larges Eggs, Separated

Directions

Preheat the oven to 340 degrees F and butter the cake pan.

Melt the butter and chocolate over hot (Not boiling) water in a double boiler. Add the coffee and whip well with a wire whisk. Remove from the heat and gradually whip in the flour, sugar, and slat. Whip in the rum. Mix in the egg yolks.

Beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry, and fold into the cooled chocolate mixture. Place in a water bath and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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