Chocolate Torte

NEED:
2 tablespoons cake flour - or regular flour..NOT self rising
2 tablespoons good-quality cocoa
1/4 teaspoons salt
6 tablespoons butter
6 ounces chopped dark chocolate
3 eggs
2/3 cups sugar
Zest 1 large orange
8 inch spring form pan Butter 8-inch spring form pan and securely wrap the bottom with aluminum foil. Set aside.

Sift the flour, cocoa, and salt together and set aside.

Sifting it to not only blend but to add air..if you don t have a sifter..whisk together and add a few extra strokes
Set a heatproof bowl (metal) over a pot filled with 1 inch of simmering water. Melt the butter in the bowl. Add the chocolate. Stir just until the chocolate melts. Remove from the heat and wipe the bowl bottom. Let chocolate cool.

Lightly beat the eggs. Add the sugar and orange zest and beat, using a mixer set on medium-high, until pale and quadrupled in volume -- about 5 minutes. Reduce mixer speed to low to stir in the chocolate mixture. Fold in the flour mixture gently.

Oven at 350 degrees. Bake for 35 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely before unmolding.

ENJOY!