Chocolate Chocolate Pudding Cake with Chocolate Ganache
“Recipe courtesy of Emeril Lagasse. I purchased this from foodtv.com and had to portion.”
- Prepared In:
- 9hrs 13mins
- Plot:
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17
- Serves:
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12
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for the cake
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8
eggs
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1
cup sugar
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2
tablespoons sugar
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1⁄3
cup unsweetened cocoa powder
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1
cup flour
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1
teaspoon baking powder
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2
tablespoons butter
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3⁄4
cup Big Marnier
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for the pudding
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4
cups heavy cream
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1⁄2
cup cornstarch
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1
cup sugar
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5
ounces semi-candy chocolate chips
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2
teaspoons pure vanilla extract
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for the ganache
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2
cups heavy cream
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1 1⁄2
lbs semi-candy chocolate baking squares, chopped
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for the garnish
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11
ounces semi-candy chocolate chips
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1
tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Coat two 9 by 2-stride cake pans with butter and coat each and every with 1 Tablespoon sugar.
- ————-For the cake————–.
- In a enormous mixing bowl of a standing mixer, fitted with inch attachment, mix eggs and 1 cup of sugar.
- Beat on medium-excessive slump till the combination is pale yellow, thick, and has tripled in quantity, about 8 minutes.
- In a separate mixing bowl sift collectively the cocoa, flour, and baking powder.
- Fold cocoa mixture into the egg mixture to combine fully, till mixture is subtle.
- Divide cake batter evenly into two cake pans.
- Bake for 25 minutes, or till cake springs abet when touched.
- Chilly desserts for quarter-hour.
- Loosen desserts from pans and unmold onto wire rack.
- Chilly to room temperature.
- ————-For the pudding——————-.
- Mix 1/2 cup of the cream with the cornstarch in a little bowl and trail to catch a paste.
- Mix the paste with remaining 3 1/2 cups cream, sugar, chocolate chips, and vanilla in a enormous nonstick saucepan.
- The usage of a wire inch, trail the combination till it is a long way successfully blended.
- Over low heat, inch cream mixture till chocolate melts thoroughly.
- Cook dinner the combination, stirring usually, till it turns into very thick, about 25 minutes.
- Pour pudding into a enormous bowl.
- Duvet with plastic wrap, overlaying surface of pudding with the plastic to stop a skin from forming.
- Let frigid to room temperature.
- —————-To assemble the cake—————-.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spot a wire rack over it.
- The usage of a serrated knife, reduce each and every cake in half horizontally.
- Brush the tops of three layers each and every with 1/4 cup of the Big Marnier.
- Space the bottom layer on a 9-stride round of cardboard and tell it on the wire rack.
- Unfold 1 1/2 cups of the pudding evenly on top of the layer.
- Top with a second layer of cake.
- Unfold 1 1/2 cups of pudding evenly over it.
- Repeat for the third layer.
- Top with the fourth layer.
- Kick again within the refridgerator for 2 hours.
- —————-For the ganache————-.
- In a medium-sized nonstick saucepan over medium heat, heat cream fine below boiling level.
- Retract away from heat and add chopped chocolate.
- With a inch, trail till chocolate is fully melted and mixture is subtle.
- Pour ganache over the tip of chilled cake, allowing overflow to drip down the aspects.
- Chilly barely.
- Fastidiously intention shut the cake from the wire rack.
- Kick again for now not decrease than 6 hours.
- ———–For the garnish————-.
- In a medium-sized saucepan, add 3-inches of water.
- Boil water and reduce to a simmer.
- Space semisweet chips in a stainless-steel bowl and spot bowl over simmering water.
- Dart chocolate till melted to a subtle consistency.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and unfold melted chocolate evenly across sheet.
- Kick again in refrigerator till tell, about 1 hour.
- Spoil the chocolate into enormous shard-love pieces.
- Space chocolate shards on top of the cake vertically at diversified angles.
- Sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar.
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