Flourless chocolate cake is as simple a dessert as it comes. Containing just yolks, eggs, sugar, chocolate and butter, it is a grown up’s version of a brownie cake. Flourless chocolate cake is rich and decadent in flavor, but light in texture.

For the cake in the photo, I made some chocolate ganache, made with 60% cacao dark chocolate. The more cacao percentage, the less sweet and more rich it will be. Luckily, nowadays this chocolate is as common as standard semisweet chocolate in the baking aisle.

For the full recipe of the cake at left, check out the Flourless Chocolate Cake recipe on PastrySampler.com. Use your baking or kitchen scale as I wrote the recipe in grams for everyone’s convenience.

New year, new roll out!
With our growing popularity of our unique pastry gift and tool sets and tip packs, we are changing gears and PastrySampler.com will soon be focussing on those instead of individual products. As in the past, Pastry Sampler will still be a great source for custom orders. Our Culinary Shopper service will let our customers create their own orders with any item from our manufacturer’s line of products.

What does this mean for you? Well, you can order anything from their catalogs; if they have it we can get it. If they have a non-publicized and limited-time special we can pass the savings on to you. Our pastry sampler packs will be expanded by theme and by maker.

All our product pages will still be up as these provide an invaluable source of information for our customers, by showing how to use these items and what they are made of, along with the specs for the product. Free product & culinary information has always been a hallmark of our sites, and will remain so. So, stop by PastrySampler.com in the coming weeks for our new site. The pages will have the same look, just how orders are placed will change. We are excited to provide our new culinary shopper service to all of our customers.

Email me if you have any questions, and I’ll be happy to answer them.

Pastry Sampler is in the process of moving the SPS Bakery Crafts cake separator plates to the new Culinary Shopper system. Therefore, we are unloading our current inventory of cake plates and columns. Many are already up on eBay – for those that need them now, awesome sales to be had, many at or under wholesale pricing. Once these are gone they are availabe at regular retail pricing. Get them while they last. But they are always available through custom orders.

Bakery Crafts Custom Orders

Also the pricing for all the cake boards, drums, cardboards, etc. has all been lowered, and all have been switched to the new ordering system. To place an order, fill out the order form and send it in to us. Minimums may apply, but we have many minimum free days for various manufacturers throughout the month.