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| Flourless chocolate cake with bourbon vanilla ice cream |
A flourless chocolate cake is a type of cake made from an aerated chocolate custard. It is prepared with a whole egg foam in a manner similar to a Génoise cake, using low heat from the melted chocolate to stabilize the protein matrix (which contains only the starch naturally present in the chocolate) and then baked in a bain-marie. While traditionally considered a restaurant-style dessert, flourless chocolate cake is also popular for gluten-free diets.
A similar cake with little or no flour in which the egg matrix is allowed to collapse is known as "fallen" or "molten" chocolate cakeand was popularized by, among others, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's restaurants.
Torta caprese, originating from the Italian island of Capri, is a traditional flourless chocolate cake popular in that region.
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