Flour-less Chocolate Cake

This week it was my turn to make a snack to bring to our Tuesday night Bible study. Though I've been fudging on the gluten-free eating recently, I still decided to make a flour-less and dairy-free treat. I got this recipe from my mom. She had told me it was a simple, easy to make cake. It is simple enough, I just got a little overwhelmed with some equipment difficulties and phone calls during the process. 

The ingredients are simple and few: 

7 oz really good semisweet chocolate (45-50% or higher cocoa)

3/4 cup of butter (I used Earth Balance - a dairy free butter)

1 cup of sugar, divided

4 eggs, separated

There are an assortment of dairy-free butter options to choose from. 

When I went to melt the butter and chocolate I ended up melting the bottom of my plastic mixing bowl... oops!

The process was quite messy... which was hard for me. There was little time for cleaning-as-you-go. 

I generally love using electric mixers. It's not quite as fun, however, when there isn't yummy batter goodness to lick off. This mixture was purely egg whites and sugar. 

Next I had to fold in the egg white/sugar mixture with the melted chocolate/butter/egg yolks, which created a marble-like effect. Pretty.

After everything was combined, I put the batter into a 9 inch cake pan and let it bake for 40 mins.

After baking I took the cake out and let it cool for 30 minutes before removing it from the pan.

It's pretty thin and flat. It is supposed to turn out this way. It almost looks like brownies. 

I dusted it with powdered sugar and called it a day!

These are the steps I followed if you are interested in giving it a go yourself:

1.  Preheat oven to 300°F.  Melt chocolate and butter in a double boiler (you can use the microwave on lower power).  Stir together half the sugar and four yolks; add to melted chocolate concoction.

2.  Using an electric mixer, beat the egg whites; slowly add remaining 1/2 cup sugar until stiff peaks form.  Fold mixture into chocolate.  Pour into a greased 9" cake pan.

3.  Bake 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with just a few crumbs on it.  Cool 30 minutes before removing from pan.  Dust with powdered sugar.

Time to get Twitterpated

Because Spring is HERE! At least it's here in Savannah! Look at the flowers on the trees!

Emma had her second week of puppy classes this week. We got there early so I ate lunch in the car before we went in. Emma was so excited, she couldn't stand it. She kept running back and forth in the backseat whining. She did really well today! We got rid of the gentle leader and got a prong collar. It works really well! Yay!

Had to snap a shot of the fluffy golden retriever puppy!

Miguel, I saved you $150.00

I saved $150.00 by dying my own hair! And hopefully this will also save me $150.00 every three months! As I posted a while back, I got sick of always having roots so I went back to being a brunette. I liked the color a lot, but it was still lighter than my natural color. So, today, I literally went back to my roots. This will also make my husband happy because it means less money out of our wallets every couple of months. 

Beautiful, I know. ;) Waiting for the color to soak in.

I've dyed my own hair before, but it never turns out right, so it was a risky move to attempt it on my own again. However, I think when I've done it before, I didn't like it more because it was the shock of going from really blonde to a dark brunette.

I bought an $8.00 box of hair color from Loréal Paris. I didn't take time picking out the brand, I just chose it because the color on the model looked like the color of my roots.

I think it turned out alright. Not too blotchy or anything. I'll try and take a picture with make-up on and my hair all done nicely so I can post one without looking ghostly pale and splotchy... but not today... I don't want to straighten my hair right after I colored it. We'll see if Miguel notices when he gets home....

With the mixture in my hair... waiting for 25 minutes

The color after I rinsed it out and it was still wet

Ta-Da! It's not as dark as it is in the picture on the box, but  I'm satisfied. =) Hopefully it won't fade too quickly!