Double Chocolate Threat
- 13 cup butter
- 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 23 cup unbleached flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 pint heavy cream, whipped
- 1 1/2 pounds semisweet chocolate
- 1/2 cup strong coffee
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1/2 cup coffee liqueur
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- For the crust, melt butter and unsweetened chocolate over low heat or in top of double-boiler over hot water.
- Remove from heat; add sugar and eggs and mix well.
- Sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
- Stir into chocoalte mixture.
- Add vanilla and pour into greased and floured 8- or 9-inch square baking pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes until cake is baked, but not dry.
- Cool.
- Remove from pan and cut into strips wide enough to come most of the way up the sides of a 2-quart souffle dish or charlotte mold.
- Cut the strips through the center to make two thinner layers.
- Line bottom and sides of dish with cake layers.
- Don't worry about piecing: it won't show.
- For filling, while cake is baking, melt semisweet chocolate with coffee over low heat or in top of double-boiler over hot water.
- Remove from heat.
- Beat yolks until pale in color; stir into chocolate.
- Stir in coffee liqueur.
- Cool.
- Beat whites until stiff but not dry.
- Whip 1/2-cup heavy cream stiff.
- Fold whites and cream into chocolate mixture and spoon into cake-lined dish.
- Chill overnight in refrigerator, well wrapped, or freeze.
- To serve, defrost if frozen.
- To remove from pan, loosen from sides with knife, then dip in hot water to loosen and turn out onto serving plate.
- Whip 1/2-pint heavy cream until stiff and cover top and parts of the sides.
- Serve in small slices.
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Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/5776 (may not work)