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CHOCOLATE DECADENCE

Grandma Jackie's famed Death by Chocolate (aka "Baked Hershey Bar")!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Keyword: baking, cake, cakes, desserts

Equipment

  • Bain marie (double boiler)

Ingredients

  • 1 pound bittersweet chocolate
  • 5 ounces sweet butter
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 4 whole eggs

Instructions

  • Melt chocolate with butter in bain marie until just melted. Set aside.
  • Beat whole eggs and sugar in bain marie until sugar dissolves and until mixture is lukewarm (DO NOT OVERCOOK).
  • Remove from heat and whip until quadrupled or more in volume and until thick.
  • Fold flour into eggs.
  • Stir 1/4 egg mixture into chocolate then fold chocolate into egg mixture.
  • Bake in 8 inch floured, buttered, papered pan in 425 degree oven for no longer than 15 minutes (cake will be liquid in center).
  • Freeze, preferably overnight, before removing from pan.
  • Carefully dip bottom of pan into hot water to unmold.
  • Mask with whipped cream.
  • Decorate with shaved chocolate.
  • Refrigerate until serving.
  • Serve with raspberry sauce

Notes

Makes 12 servings