Flourless Chocolate Lime Cake - Nigella Lawson
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Serves: 6-8 servings
 
Ingredients
  • 75g Dark chocolate, chopped (I used valrhorna chocolate 66%)
  • 75g Soft unsalted butter
  • 3 Eggs (70g each)
  • 125g Caster sugar (used 100g)
  • 50g Ground almonds
  • 2tsp Cocoa powder, sifted
  • zest of one large lime
  • 1½ tbsp Lime juice
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 180C, line the base of a 20cm/8 inch springform cake tin and butter the sides.
  2. Melt the chocolate and butter together under low heat (do not boil), stir until chocolate melted and smooth, set aside.
  3. Beat the eggs and sugar together until about tripled in volume, pale and moussy.
  4. Mix the ground almonds with the cocoa powder and fold this gently into the egg and sugar mixture, followed by the melted chocolate. Finally, fold in the zest and juice of your lime.
  5. Pour and scrape this mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes.
  6. Remove from the oven and sit the cake in its tin on a wire rack to cool, Then place the cake in the fridge together with the cake pan to chill for 1-2 hours to firm. Dust with icing sugar or snow powder before serving.
Recipe by Anncoo Journal at https://www.anncoojournal.com/flourless-chocolate-lime-cake/