Recipe: Molten Chocolate Cake
Makes 20 cakes
Ingredients:
* 1 lb. chocolate (we used those chocolate chips you buy for cookies)
* 1 lb. butter
* 5 oz sugar
* 4 oz sifted flour
* 10 eggs
* 10 egg yolks
* 20 aluminum tins (butter & floured)*
* Powdered sugar for dusting at the end
How to Prepare Molten Chocolate Cakes:
Set up a double boiler by putting a large stainless steel mixing
bowl over a pot of simmering water. You can buy a double boiler,
but it is just as easy to set one up using the pans you already own.
Just make sure that no water can splash up and get into the chocolate.
Melt the butter and chocolate in the double boiler using a spatula
to keep the chocolate from burning while you are combining the
two ingredients. You want the consistency at the end to be silky.
While the chocolate is melting, whip the sugar, eggs and egg yolks
together in a kitchen aid mixer until it triples in volume.
Once the eggs and sugar reach triple volume, slowly fold in the melted
chocolate using the spatula to scrape any chocolate sticking to the
sides. On the kitchen aid mixer we were using, I had it running at
almost full speed while the eggs and sugar were mixing but turned it
down to 2 when I folded in the chocolate.
With the mixer still running at a slower speed, fold in the sifted flour
into the chocolate and egg mixture and immediately stop the machine.
Lower and remove the mixing bowl, remove the mixing whisk and stir
the mixture by hand to make sure to scrape along the sides to be sure
everything is well combined. Be careful not to over mix at this point.
Pour the mixture into the buttered and floured tins and bake at 350
degrees for 5 minutes.
When done, remove from oven and gently remove the cakes from
the tins by turning them over and gently taping the sides and bottom
of the tins onto the serving plate. Sprinkle a little powdered sugar
over the top and serve.
Ingredients:
* 1 lb. chocolate (we used those chocolate chips you buy for cookies)
* 1 lb. butter
* 5 oz sugar
* 4 oz sifted flour
* 10 eggs
* 10 egg yolks
* 20 aluminum tins (butter & floured)*
* Powdered sugar for dusting at the end
How to Prepare Molten Chocolate Cakes:
Set up a double boiler by putting a large stainless steel mixing
bowl over a pot of simmering water. You can buy a double boiler,
but it is just as easy to set one up using the pans you already own.
Just make sure that no water can splash up and get into the chocolate.
Melt the butter and chocolate in the double boiler using a spatula
to keep the chocolate from burning while you are combining the
two ingredients. You want the consistency at the end to be silky.
While the chocolate is melting, whip the sugar, eggs and egg yolks
together in a kitchen aid mixer until it triples in volume.
Once the eggs and sugar reach triple volume, slowly fold in the melted
chocolate using the spatula to scrape any chocolate sticking to the
sides. On the kitchen aid mixer we were using, I had it running at
almost full speed while the eggs and sugar were mixing but turned it
down to 2 when I folded in the chocolate.
With the mixer still running at a slower speed, fold in the sifted flour
into the chocolate and egg mixture and immediately stop the machine.
Lower and remove the mixing bowl, remove the mixing whisk and stir
the mixture by hand to make sure to scrape along the sides to be sure
everything is well combined. Be careful not to over mix at this point.
Pour the mixture into the buttered and floured tins and bake at 350
degrees for 5 minutes.
When done, remove from oven and gently remove the cakes from
the tins by turning them over and gently taping the sides and bottom
of the tins onto the serving plate. Sprinkle a little powdered sugar
over the top and serve.
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