This recipe, which makes a sort of steamed torte, comes in the box of Scharffen Berger semisweet 62% cocoa pure dark chocolate.
It comes from David Lebovitz’s cookbook, Room for Dessert. It’s a book that, just to look through, probably causes the brain to gear down the metabolism.
Chocolate Orbit Cake
It’s a super simple recipe: a 9.7 ounce box of the Scharffen Berger, chopped nad melted on a double boiler into 2 sticks (less a tablespoon) of unsalted butter. Mix 5 room temperature eggs and a cup of sugar. Mix the melted chocolate and the butter-eggs together.
[Isn’t that a beautiful color!]
It’s cooked in a baking pan lined with butter and parchment paper. That is set within a baking pan. (The outer pan filled with water and both pans covered with tin foil.)
Bake at 350 degrees for an hour and 15 minutes until when you touch the center and it comes away clean).
It’s served best chilled.
P.S. After taking it to a BBQ there was even some left for breakfast too.
