Earth Day 2023! Be sure and take a walk today and appreciate our planet earth. As many of you know, I blog about mystery/crime fiction at Mystery Fanfare. I'm the Editor of the Mystery Readers Journal. We had an issue a few years ago (Volume 36:1) that focused on Environmental Crime Fiction/Mysteries. Today on Mystery Fanfare, I blog about Reservoir Noir: books that deal with intentional flooding of towns and villages
because of building dams and reservoirs for water supply, irrigation,
power and other reasons--a sad addition to the environmental crime fiction list.
I don’t know of a good crime novel that involves the chocolate trade. That’s a theme ripe for a good mystery. Something to think about today when you make “Cracked Earth Flourless Chocolate Cake” from the recipe below.
The recipe for the cake is adapted from Tyler Florence of the Food Network. It's his Cracked Earth Flourless Chocolate Cake. And, it's Gluten-Free.
Cracked Earth Chocolate Flourless Cake: Earth Day
Ingredients
1 pound organic fair-trade dark chocolate (65-85% cacao), chopped into small pieces
1 stick unsalted butter
9 large eggs, separated
3/4 cup granulated sugar, plus 1 Tablespoon
2 cups heavy cream, cold
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Butter 9-inch springform pan.
Put
chocolate and butter in top of double boiler over
simmering water until melted.
Meanwhile, whisk egg yolks with sugar in mixing bowl until light yellow in color.
Whisk a little of
chocolate mixture into egg yolk mixture to temper the eggs -
this will keep eggs from scrambling from heat of the chocolate;
then whisk in rest of chocolate mixture.
Beat
egg whites in mixing bowl until stiff peaks form and fold into chocolate mixture.
Pour into prepared pan (spray bottom with
nonstick spray) and bake until cake is set, top starts to
crack, and toothpick inserted into cake comes out with moist
crumbs clinging to it, 20 to 25 minutes (and then check every five
minutes after that--don't overbake).
Let stand 10 minutes, then unmold.
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