RECIPE! Long!

RECIPE! Long!

PREP WORK:
Preheat your oven to 400F.
Line a ring mold with aluminum foil (on the outside, not the inside) and butter and sugar it or or just use a springform pan with butter and sugar. But still use foil. You'll see.
Pull out a pan that has sides at least 1" tall that you can put the ring mold or springform pan in (this is like a cheese cake).
Get water ready to pour in to pan.
WORK
Combine 8 ox eggs (about 5) and 3 oz yolk (about 5) with half a cup of sugar (actually just a little more - 3.75 oz) in a mixer bowl over water until it's just warm (or you can do what I do and take a blow torch to it. Love the blowtorch!). This makes the egg whip up faster to that "ribbon stage" you're looking for. Whip it on high until it's about 3 times in volume (about five minutes).
Meanwhile, melt 10 ounces of chopped/shaved semisweet chocolate over a double boiler (or in the microwave, stirring every fifteen seconds)..
Also whisk together 10.5 oz of heavy whipping cream with 1/4 tsp vanilla and 1/4 tsp salt. I also added in 1/2 oz of kahlua. You want it to kind of stick to the beater, but you don't want it to look like coolwhip (or butter).
Once the ribbon stage has been obtained, pour in (while the whip is moving) the chocolate. Then pour into another pan (or be lazy like me and not) and carefully fold in the whipped cream.
Put the mold(s) on the sheet pan, ladle in the batter no more than 1/2 way full, put in the oven, pour the water in the pan (you put foil on the outside to keep the water from getting in and making your cake a custardy-eggy goo. Ick.
Bake 30-40 minutes. The top will look dry and it will spring back when you touch it, but won't be gooey or act like undercooked eggs. Touch it at about 20 minutes. You'll see what I mean.
Let sit in the water bath out of the oven for a few minutes to set up, then let it cool even more to set up completely (still in the mold). It's pretty gooey. I would, in fact, call this a flourless chocolate custard. I didn't like it so much, but then I've still got a headcold.and can't taste worth a darned.
Not even chocolate