# Chocolate Sponge (flourless)

### Ingredients
 * 65 grams dark chocolate, melted
 * 7 pieces egg yolks
 * 130 grams caster sugar
 * 15 grams cocoa powder
 * 5 pieces egg whites

### Directions

Whisk together egg yolks and caster sugar to a sabayon.  Fold in melted chocolate and cocoa powder.  Whisk egg whites to stiff peaks.  Fold 1/3 of the whites into the chocolate mix, then gently fold this mix through the remaining whites.

Bake 20-25 minutes at 170°C.

Note: double this mixture to shallowly fill one gastronom tray.

### Meta
author: Heston Blumenthal

tags: Puddings and Desserts, Cakes and Biscuits, Kingham Plough