Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Cake - Paula Deen
- FILLING
- 8 (1 1/16 ounce) semi-sweet chocolate baking squares
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup Bourbon
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
- GANACHE
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 325u0b0F.
- Grease and flour a 9-inch springform pan.
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a small bowl over a double boiler.
- Remove from heat, and set pot aside leaving the bowl on top of pot.
- Whisk egg yolks and 1/2 of the sugar in a metal mixing bowl.
- Place bowl over slightly simmering water, and whisk until yolks reach 140u0b0F.
- Remove bowl from heat and beat egg and sugar mixture with an electric mixer to a ribbon stage.
- Add the Bourbon to the chocolate mixture, then fold the yolk and sugar mixture into the chocolate mixture.
- Mix flour with pecans and fold into chocolate mixture.
- Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites and the remaining sugar to form soft peaks, then fold into chocolate mixture.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Allow cake to cool in pan and then place in the freezer for at least 2 hours.
- Once it's frozen, remove sides of springform pan.
- Invert cake onto a wire rack and remove bottom of springform pan.
- Prepare ganache by bringing heavy cream to a boil and pouring cream over chocolate chips in a bowl.
- Whisk until completely smooth.
- Set wire rack with cake on top of sheetpan.
- Pour warm lukewarm ganache over cake, coating cake completely, recoating if necessary.
- Gently jiggle wire rack to help drain excess ganache.
- Remove cake from wire rack with spatula and place on a serving plate.
filling, semisweet chocolate baking squares, butter, eggs, sugar, bourbon, flour, pecans, ganache, heavy cream, semisweet chocolate chips
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-bourbon-pecan-cake-paula-deen-168038 (may not work)