Chocolate Souffle Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 9
• vegetable oil cooking spray
• 14 tablespoons sugar
• 2/3 cup walnuts, toasted
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 8 large egg whites
• 1 pinch salt
• powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f line bottom of 8-inch springform pan with 2-3/4-inch high sides with parchment paper.
• 2 spread pan and paper with vegetable oil spray.
• 3 sprinkle pan with 2 tablespoons sugar.
• 4 finely grind nuts with 2 tablespoons sugar in processor.
• 5 transfer nut mixture to large bowl.
• 6 mix in 10 tablespoons sugar and cocoa, then oil.
• 7 using electric mixer, beat egg whites and salt in large bowl until soft peaks form.
• 8 fold whites into cocoa mixture in 3 additions.
• 9 spoon batter into prepared pan; smooth top.
• 10 bake until cake puffs and tester inserted into center comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 30 minutes.
• 11 cool cake in pan on rack about 30 minutes.
• 12 (cake may fall.) cut around pan sides to loosen cake.
• 13 remove sides of pan and cool cake completely.
• 14 sprinkle cake with powdered sugar.