Chocolate Cake with Soft Meringue and Pecans Ingredients For the cake: - unsalted butter - 10 tablespoons, plus more for pan (room temperature) light-brown sugar - 3/4 cup, firmly packed large whole eggs - 6, separated best quality bittersweet chocolate - 12 ounces, melted and cooled vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon salt - 1/4 teaspoon