Chocolate Valentines Day Cake
From sublimex420 16 years ago
- 40 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Very yummy for your honey this Valentine's Day! Wake him or her up with a mouthful of CAKE! Loaded with pistachio and raspberry flavors with a hint of vanilla cream.
Ingredients
- Cake: shopping list
- 1 (16-ounce) package pound cake mix shopping list
- 3/4 cup milk shopping list
- 2 large eggs shopping list
- 1/2 cup pistachios, chopped shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- Filling: shopping list
- 1/3 cup butter or margarine, at room temperature shopping list
- 2/3 cup unsifted powdered sugar shopping list
- 1 large egg yolk shopping list
- 3 ounces white chocolate squares, chopped shopping list
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream shopping list
- glaze & Topping: shopping list
- 3 ounces dark chocolate (bittersweet or semi-sweet), chopped shopping list
- 1/4 cup heavy cream shopping list
- 1/2 cup raspberries shopping list
- 1/4 cup pistachios, chopped shopping list
How to make it
- Cake:
- Beat cake mix with milk and 2 eggs as package directs.
- Mix in pistachios and vanilla extract. Grease bottoms of two small 6-inch diameter (approximately 3 cup) baking dishes.
- Pour batter into dishes.
- Bake at 350*F for 40 minutes or until done.
- Cool 15 minutes in dishes then invert onto wire racks and cool.
- Wrap and freeze one cake for use another time.
- Filling:
- Beat butter with powdered sugar and 1 egg yolk until smooth.
- Melt white chocolate with cream in saucepan, stirring over low heat, then beat smooth with wire whip.
- Beat into butter mixture and cool until spreadable consistency.
- Glaze:
- In saucepan, combine chocolate and cream; stir over low heat until melted.
- Cool until it begins to thicken, then spread on top and sides of cake.
- (To soften glaze, warm over hot water.)
- Assembly:
- Split one cake into three thin layers and divide filling between two center layers.
- Cover cake with plastic wrap and chill until set.
- Spread with Dark Chocolate Glaze, then decorate top with raspberries and chopped pistachios.
- Cake is best served when it has been at room temperature at least 30 minutes.
- Cover and chill any leftovers.
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:) One of the best..Great filling.
ahmed1
in Cairo loved it
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mmmm, I can't wait to make this for my hubby :)
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in Chicago loved it
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