Warm Chocolate Gateaux Topped with Sour Cream Quenelle and Raspberry Sauce
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Pinch salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, slightly softened
- 6 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 cup melted semisweet chocolate pieces
- 18 cherry kisses or cherry cordial cremes to be placed inside the chocolate cake
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 tablespoon Kirsch
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 6 teaspoons raspberry sauce (the kind used for ice cream)
- 6 fresh raspberries
- 6 mint leaves
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Oil 6 individual cake tins (each about 4 1/2 inches in diameter) and dust with flour.
- In the large bowl of an electric mixer, combine flour sugar and salt, mixing evenly.
- Cream in butter at low speed, until evenly combined.
- Then add eggs and egg yolks and melted chocolate until well combined.
- Increase speed to high and beat for 2 minutes.
- Fill each cake tin half full then place 3 cherry kisses in the center of the surface of the poured batter.
- Then cover the kisses with the remaining batter to a level of 2/3's full.
- Bake until the surface of the cake springs back when touched, approximately 35 minutes.
- Make the topping while the cake is in the oven.
- Mix the sour cream, lime juice, and the Kirsch in a small mixing bowl.
- Sift in the confectioners' sugar gradually, mixing after each addition to keep smooth.
- Remove cake from oven and let cool in pans for 10 minutes.
- Then remove from pans to serving dish and top with sour cream/sugar topping mixture (spooned in a quenelle shape), a teaspoon of raspberry sauce, and a raspberry paired with a mint leaf.
- Serve warm.
flour, granulated sugar, salt, butter, eggs, egg yolks, chocolate, kisses, sour cream, lime, sugar, raspberry sauce, fresh raspberries, mint
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/warm-chocolate-gateaux-topped-with-sour-cream-quenelle-and-raspberry-sauce-recipe.html (may not work)