TRINA'S DECADENT CHOCOLATE CAKE W/ RASPBERRY SAUCE

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Categories     Cake     Chocolate     Dessert     Bake

Yield Makes 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 7

12 ounces of semi sweet chocolate chopped (2 boxes of baker's chocolate)
1 1/2 bricks of unsalted butter (3/4 of a cup)
4 large eggs
1/2 of white sugar
10 ounce package of frozen unsweetened raspberries THAWED
1/4 cup sugar (to taste)
Whipped Cream

Steps:

  • Cake 1. Preheat the oven to 350 f (use normal oven) 2. Butter a nine by two inch round cake pan and then line bottom with a round of wax paper. 3. Butter paper and dust pan with flour knocking out excess 4. Melt chocolate and butter in a metal bowl over top a saucepan of simmering water whisking until smooth (you only need a small amount of water) 5. Cool slightly 6. Beat together eggs and sugar with an electric mixer until pale yellow think and a ribbon forms when the beater is lifted, about four minutes with a standing mixer and eight minutes with a hand held 7. Fold one forth of egg mixture into chocolate mixture to lighten 8. GENTALLY fold in rest of egg mixture into chocolate 9. Pour batter into cake pan and rap pan sharply on counter to eliminate air bubbles (lift and let go) 10. Put cake pan in a hot water bath and place it in the middle of the oven. (Put cake pan into a larger pan with hot water halfway up....DO NOT let water get into cake) 11. Check at about 35 minutes 12. Bake for about 45 minute (top will be set but a tester will NOT come out clean...not supposed to) 13. Remove cake from water bath cool completely on pan on rack....run a thin knife around the cake and chill covered at least for four hours and up to twelve Sauce 1. Puree the raspberries with sugar in a food processor or blender 2. Force into a fine sift into a bowl 3. Chill until ready to serve To Remove Cake from Pan 1. Put cake pan directly on a burner at VERY low heat 2. Move pan around on burner to warm bottom about thirty seconds to 3. Shake pan to loosen cake 4. Invert cake onto a plate 5. Remove wax paper and invert cake onto serving plate 6. Put back in fridge for couple of minutes Serve it sauce and whipped cream!!!!

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