Meal Type: Dessert

Prep Time: 10 min.

Cooking Time: 60 min.

Total Time: 1 hours and 10 min.

Cook Method: Oven

Cuisine: French

     Serving Size: 8 2 4 8 16 32 - Change

Date Added: May 10, 2010

This cake has to be made with utmost attention as their are lots of ingredients to handle. Would go really well with a cup of hot tea.

1. Combine espresso, hot water, semisweet chocolate and bitter chocolate in double boiler filled with hot water and cover.

2. Without applying additional heat, melt the chocolate.

3. Butter two layer-cake pans, lay a sheet of waxed paper in each, and dust the pans with flour.

4. (The pans should be able to hold about 4 cups each).

5. Beat the egg yolks and then gradually add about 2/3 cup of sugar until the yolks are thick and lemon colored.

6. Beat butter into the chocolate mixture. Add the chocolate mixture to the egg yolks and stir.

7. Beat the egg whites until foamy. Add the cream of tartar, and then gradually add up to 2 T sugar.

8. Add the sifted corn starch gradually to the chocolate mixture, alternating with the egg whites.

9. The corn starch and egg whites should be folded in to the chocolate mixture.

10. Pour half the batter into each cake pan. Bake on the lower middle level of a preheated 350 degree F oven until set on the sides.

11. Cool the cake in the pan, and then turn out onto a serving dish.

12. Combine the icing ingredients and ice the cake as you would a normal layer cake.

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Dietary Notes:

This French Chocolate Layer Cake recipe is low-sodium with 0mg per serving, low-fat with 0g per serving, low-saturated fat with 0g per serving, low-cholesterol with 0mg per serving and low-calorie with 0 per serving

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