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Flourless Chocolate Cake Roll

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Ingredients
  

  • 6 eggs separated and at room temperature
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 6 ounces semisweet chocolate
  • 3 Tablespoons water
  • pinch salt
  • Cocoa powder
  • 1¼ cups heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar optional
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla.

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Spray a 10x15 with pam, line w parchment and spray again.
  • Beat the egg yolks until creamy and gradually beat in the sugar until the mixture is very thick and light in color.
  • Meanwhile microwave the chocolate and water until smooth and cool.
  • Stir the melted chocolate into the yolk mixture.
  • Beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff.
  • Fold the whites into the chocolate mixture.
  • Spread into the pan and bake 15-18 mins.
  • Cool in the pan.
  • Sift a layer of cocoa evenly over the cake.
  • Lay a piece of parchment onto a cookie sheet and carefully flip the cake onto the parchment.
  • Remove the original parchment it baked on.
  • Beat the heavy cream, with the sugarand vanilla until thick.
  • Spread over the chocolate roll and using the parchment paper underneath as a guide, roll the cake like a jelly roll and slide seam down onto a board or platter.
  • Chill several hours.
  • Dust with powdered sugar.