Thursday, January 03, 2002


and the daring baker has come through!

plus, she's apparently been reading my diatribes (rant and rant) on food writing, because she provides the most casual, bare recipe. . .while most cookbooks and "serious bakers" would tell you never to mess with the amount of liquid in a recipe, here's where she took the brave step of going her own merry way. and so she created the delicious flourless chocolate pudding cake tasted at paula carino's new year's day event. below, exactly as given to me --

melt:
1 pound semisweet chocolate
1 cup butter
1/4 cup kahlua (added a little extra)
1 tsp. vanilla (added 2)

beat (approx 6 minutes):
7 eggs
1 cup sugar

fold in 1/3 of egg mixture; fold in remaining egg mixture
bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes (left it in a little longer)

remember, she used ghirardelli chocolate, lurpak danish butter, and nielsen-massey vanilla. i must try this myself the weekend after next. however, as is my wont, i'd be using valrhona le noir gastronomie and plugra. that's just me.

in the meantime, if any of you make this, please write and tell me the result! i'm not above posting a digital pic. . .(hint!)

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