Flourless Chocolate Truffle Cake

Today I’m sharing a delicious recipe for Flourless Chocolate Truffle Cake and an excerpt from James Beard Award-winning writer Carolyn Jung. Her new cookbook, EAST BAY COOKS, is publishing in hardcover this September 10….enjoy!Flourless Chocolate Truffle CakeSwirly cinnamon rolls, sugar-showered croissant doughnuts, and St. Honoré cakes crowned with rings of precious cream puffs. Princess cakes in palette-popping pastels. Shortbread cookies that have smitten generations. Eyes widen, lips smack, and stomachs can’t help but growl at the sweet trove inside the Old Towne Danville Bakery.

 

The bakery has been a cherished landmark since originally opening on a tree-lined dirt road in 1952. Over the years, it’s had more than half a dozen owners. Current proprietor Karen Cordeiro, however, may be the longest-standing one, having taken over the bakery in 2006 and then moving it to its current, larger locale. But “larger” is a relative term. While there’s more
seating here, the kitchen could fit inside a recipe box. “Three is a crowd,” Cordeiro says. “It is that small.” Remarkably, three do work together in this kitchen, somehow turning out loads of almond cookies and tropical mango bars, and upwards of four hundred custom wedding cakes annually. Some recipes have been passed down from former owners; others are the creations of Cordeiro and her staff.

Flourless Chocolate Truffle Cake


An Oakland native whose family owned a deli, Cordeiro spent twenty-five years working for a local grocery store chain before she and her husband decided to buy the bakery. “I feel like I am carrying on a legacy,” she says. “When people enjoy something, I tell them many families have contributed to it. I cannot take credit for sixty-seven years of a wonderful institution, but my job is to sustain it.”

 

Gooey Chocolate Toffee Butter Cake is another scrumptious recipe to try too! 

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It’s simple to make and delicious to enjoy!