Chocolate Bourbon Cake
From webgoddess 15 years ago
- 70 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Don't skimp on the bourbon - use the full cup!!
Ingredients
- * 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened, more for greasing pan shopping list
- * 2 cups all-purpose flour, more for dusting pan shopping list
- * 5 ounces high quality, unsweetened dark chocolate shopping list
- * 1/4 cup instant espresso (can use instant coffee) shopping list
- * 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder shopping list
- * 1 cup bourbon whiskey (can use 1/2 cup), more for sprinkling shopping list
- * 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt shopping list
- * 2 cups granulated sugar shopping list
- * 3 large eggs shopping list
- * 1 tablespoon vanilla extract shopping list
- * 1 teaspoon baking soda shopping list
- * 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar (powdered sugar), for sprinkling shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease and flour a large bundt pan (10 cup capacity), or two 8- or 9-inch loaf pans. Melt chocolate in a microwave oven or in a double boiler over simmering water. Let cool.
- Put instant espresso and cocoa powder in a 2-cup (or larger) glass measuring cup. Add enough boiling water to come up to the 1 cup measuring line. Mix until powders dissolve. Stir in whiskey and salt; let cool.
- Beat softened butter until fluffy (2-3 minutes on high). Add sugar and beat until well combined. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract, baking soda and melted chocolate, scraping down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula.
- With the mixer on low speed, beat in a third of the whiskey espresso cocoa mixture. When liquid is absorbed, beat in 1 cup flour. Repeat additions, ending with whiskey mixture. Scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth top. Bake until a cake tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes for Bundt pan (loaf pans will take less time, start checking them after 55 minutes).
- Transfer cake to a rack. Unmold after 15 minutes and sprinkle warm cake with more whiskey. Let cool. Sprinkle powdered sugar through a mesh sieve over the cake before serving.
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great cake thanks high5
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm I'll have to give this one a try, love anything chocolate. You have my 5
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