{"slug":"italian-flourless-chocolate-cake","collection":"recipes","is_recipe":true,"visibility":"public","title":"Italian Flourless Chocolate Cake","description":"A dense, fudgy Italian-style flourless chocolate cake made with dark chocolate and potato starch, finished with a dusting of confectioners' sugar.","body_md":"\n\n## Source\n\n-   https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018431-italian-flourless-chocolate-cake\n\n## Preheat Oven\n\n-   Preheat oven to 350°F\n\n## Special Equipment\n\n-   Stand mixer\n-   8\" round cake pan\n\n## Ingredients\n\n-   100g (7 tablespoons) unsalted butter softened, plus more for\n    pan\n-   60g (½ cup) confectioners' sugar, sifted, plus more for dusting\n-   113g (4oz) 70% \"top quality\" dark chocolate\n-   2 extra-large eggs, separated\n-   20g (2 tablespoons) potato or corn starch\n-   40g (3 ½ tablespoons) extra or superfine sugar\n\n ## Preparation\n\n1.  Heat oven to **350° F**.\n2.  Butter an **8-inch cake pan**. Line bottom with parchment.\n3.  In a **large bowl**, using a mixer or by hand, beat the **butter**\n    with the **confectioners' sugar** until smooth and creamy.\n4.  Melt **chocolate** in a pan on top of stove.\n5.  Pour warm chocolate over the butter and sugar mixture and beat until\n    smooth.\n6.  Whisk in **egg yolks** one at a time.\n7.  Stir in **starch**.\n8.  Using a stand mixer, beat **egg whites** until soft peaks form.\n9.  Gradually beat in **superfine sugar** and continue beating until\n    firm peaks develop.\n10. Fold egg whites into chocolate mixture.\n11. Scrape the batter out of the bowl, and spread it in the pan.\n12. Bake for **18 minutes**.\n13. Cake will rise and top will look dry and a little crackly.\n14. Remove pan from oven, place on a rack and allow to cool completely,\n    about **2 hours**. Cake will sink a bit.\n15. Unmold cake, peel off parchment, then invert onto a serving dish so\n    the crackly surface is on top.\n16. Generously sift **confectioners' sugar** over the top, then serve.\n\n\n## Notes\n\n- **Unit repair (2026-07-30):** the ounce figures in this recipe were placeholders, not conversions — everything between 14g and 40g had been written \"(1oz)\" and everything between 43g and 65g \"(2oz)\". The gram weights are correct and unchanged; only the bogus ounce fragments are removed. Where a spoon or cup measure sat in the same parentheses it is kept, since that one is real.\n\n","draft":false,"servings":"6","prep_time":"15 minutes","cook_time":"18 minutes","total_time":"2 hours 33 minutes","source_name":"NYT Cooking","source_url":"https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018431-italian-flourless-chocolate-cake","created_at":"2019-02-24T18:32:34Z","updated_at":"2026-07-30T22:13:46.869977Z","categories":["dessert"],"tags":["chocolate","Flourless"],"methods":["Baked"],"ingredients":[{"section":"","items":["-   100g (7 tablespoons) unsalted butter softened, plus more for","-   60g (½ cup) confectioners' sugar, sifted, plus more for dusting","-   113g (4oz) 70% \"top quality\" dark chocolate","-   2 extra-large eggs, separated","-   20g (2 tablespoons) potato or corn starch","-   40g (3 ½ tablespoons) extra or superfine sugar"],"parsed":[{"raw":"-   100g (7 tablespoons) unsalted butter softened, plus more for","qty":100,"unit":"g","item":"unsalted butter softened","prep":"plus more for"},{"raw":"-   60g (½ cup) confectioners' sugar, sifted, plus more for dusting","qty":60,"unit":"g","item":"confectioners' sugar, sifted, plus more for dusting"},{"raw":"-   113g (4oz) 70% \"top quality\" dark chocolate","qty":113,"unit":"g","item":"70% \"top quality\" dark chocolate"},{"raw":"-   2 extra-large eggs, separated","qty":2,"item":"extra-large eggs","prep":"separated"},{"raw":"-   20g (2 tablespoons) potato or corn starch","qty":20,"unit":"g","item":"potato or corn starch"},{"raw":"-   40g (3 ½ tablespoons) extra or superfine sugar","qty":40,"unit":"g","item":"extra or superfine sugar"}]}],"servings_int":6,"qc":{"status":"passed","last_checked_at":"2026-07-30T22:17:47.718524Z","checked_by":"claude-code","standard_version":"2026-07-29","findings_count":0,"stale":false}}