I had
Johna (whose baking prowess is already notorious) make Dad his favorite cake,
the Tunnel of Fudge. The insides stay moist, so you have to check it by
stabbing the side, not the center. Add a little cooled off coffee (like a
quarter cup), and garnish it with icing and powdered sugar. It's a vintage
cake, takes three types of sugar, and has a very complex taste.
Be sure to spoon the flower into the measuring cup for accuracy, and use all of the nuts, or it won't bake right.
It needs to cool in the pan for an hour or so before inverting. As always, grease and flour the pan and PREHEAT THE OVEN before you begin the batter. Set the butter and eggs out on the counter.
Clean as you go, or your filthy ass kitchen will take all of the success you would have felt with your cake, were you not such a lazy slob in the kitchen. You're baking a cake, not vandalizing an entire workspace. Wash, wipe, taste and trash as you go. It's good form. We're adults now. It's time to keep it professional, kids. Nothing impresses like good kitchen habits. Right?
Be sure to spoon the flower into the measuring cup for accuracy, and use all of the nuts, or it won't bake right.
It needs to cool in the pan for an hour or so before inverting. As always, grease and flour the pan and PREHEAT THE OVEN before you begin the batter. Set the butter and eggs out on the counter.
Clean as you go, or your filthy ass kitchen will take all of the success you would have felt with your cake, were you not such a lazy slob in the kitchen. You're baking a cake, not vandalizing an entire workspace. Wash, wipe, taste and trash as you go. It's good form. We're adults now. It's time to keep it professional, kids. Nothing impresses like good kitchen habits. Right?
TUNNEL OF FUDGE
CAKE
·
1-1/2 cups butter,
softened
·
1 cup granulated sugar
·
3/4 cup brown sugar
·
2 (1-ounce) squares
unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
·
6 eggs
·
2 cups sifted powdered
sugar
·
2 cups flour
·
2/3 cup cocoa
·
2 teaspoons vanilla
·
2 cups chopped pecans
or walnuts
·
1/2 cup semisweet
chocolate chips
·
1 teaspoon vegetable
oil
1.
Grease and flour pan,
preheat oven, set out butter and egg
2.
While melting the
chocolate, cream sugars and egg. Use a double boiler or the microwave, just
keep stirring it, or it'll scald and get hard and suck.
3.
Add the eggs, one at a
time, then the cooled melted chocolate and the powdered sugar, then the flour,
vanilla and nuts.
4.
Pour and bake for
40-50 minutes, until the top is dry and shiny, and the sides can be poked
clean.
5.
Let cool for an hour.
After inverting onto a fancy cake plate (or at least a clean one), melt the
rest of the chocolate with some oil and pour on top. Dust with powdered
sugar.
6.
Eat the gooey
awesomeness
Reminds me of molten
lava cakes, which are individual chocolate cakes, ganache centers oozing out
uncontrollably. Will post that recipe next I make it.
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