Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Cake - Paula Deen
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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10-12
ingredients
directions
- Preheat oven to 325ºF.
- 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 140ºF.
- 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.
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I decided to make this recipe as part of a cake-a-thon, organized by the hosts of the Canadian Forum, in honor of Chef-I-Am, who lost her battle to cancer in mid-September. The ingredients caught my attention and the twists with the separate methods used for the yolks and whites piqued my interest. I'd never baked a cake like that before. The process went well, but I was a bit worried when the resulting cake turned out seemingly dense. It barely rose. A quick email to Nana Lee, who posted the recipe, reassured me that it was supposed to be more torte-like than cake-like. The taste was amazing: an unctious cross between a brownie and mousse cake. It's hard to describe. But this recipe is definitely a keeper! To: Chef-I-Am, In memoriam.
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