Recipes

QUICK Fast & Fudgy Chocolate Cake

Servings: 10 Servings Prep. Time: 15 MIn Prep 50 Min Bake Print

   This cake is quick, easy and sinfully rich!  The prep time is quick.



Ingredients

    10  oz bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
      1  cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
      5  large eggs
1 1/4  cup sugar
      5  T all purpose flour
1 1/2  tsp baking powder
Powdered sugar



Directions

   Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

   Butter and flour 10 inch springform pan with 2 3/4 inch high sides.  Stir chocolate and butter in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until chocolate melts and mixture is smooth.  Beat eggs and 1 1/4 cups sugar in large bowl until well blended and beginning to thicken.  Sift flour and baking powder over eggs and fold in.  Gradually fold in chocolate mixture.

   Transfer batter to prepared cheesecake pan.  Bake cake 20 minutes.

    Cover pan with foil.  Bake until tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs still attached, about 30 minutes longer.

    Uncover cake; cool in pan on rack (cake will fall as it cools). Cut around pan sides to loosen cake.

   Release pan sides.

   Sift powdered sugar over cake; cut into wedges.