Colonial Chocolate Cake Pécoul
Ingredients:
9 ounces semisweet chocolate (we use chocolate chips)
5 ounces melted butter
1-1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3 Tablespoons flour
3 Tablespoons water
Melt chocolate with water over low heat and stir until smooth. Add butter and egg yolks, stirring all the time; add sugar; beat the egg whites until stiff and stir them into the batter; finally, stir in the flour. Grease and flour 9-inch pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 11 minutes and 325 degrees for 20 minutes. The cake is so gooey that it may not actually release from the pan, so you may have to serve it from the pan. Pécoul is a 1769 plantation mansion (national historic monument) on the Caribbean Island of Martinique that used to be in the family.

