Such is the case the first time I discovered the late Richard Sax's Chocolate Cloud Cake. My father is a restaurant chef who ...

What is the cake? It's the famous flourless chocolate “cloud” cake by Richard Sax, the late, great James Beard Award-winning chef and cookbook author of such books as Classic Home Desserts.

The signature “Chocolate Cloud” is lighter than a mousse, whipped with air from his “Cloud Machine” in a secret recipe that makes the liquid look and taste like a chocolate cloud.