• 12 eggs
  • 12 oz sugar
  • 6 1/2 oz flour
  • 3 1/2 oz cornstarch
  • 2 oz cocoa powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 cup butter

Melt butter in a pan util it starts to turn slighly brown.  Add baking soda to butter and stir.  Combine eggs and sugar in a metal bowl and whisk over a hot water bath until the mixture reaches 140 degrees.  Remove and whip with a mixer until it is 3x the original volume and holds a ribbon for 10 seconds.  Fold in flour and cornsatrch.  Remove a portion of th batter and fold in butter/soda mixture and then fold that back into remaining batter.  Bake in 9 in cake pan lined with parchment on the bottom and greased well.  Bake at 350 degrees about 40 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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