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Whiskey-soaked Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe


Whiskey-Soaked Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened, more for greasing pan
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour, more for dusting pan
  • 5 ounces unsweetened chocolate
  • 1/4 cup instant espresso powder
  • 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup bourbon, rye or other whiskey, more for sprinkling
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • Confectioners' sugar, for garnish (optional)

Directions
  1. Grease and flour a 10-cup-capacity Bundt pan (or two 8- or 9-inch loaf pans).
  2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In microwave oven or double boiler over simmering water, melt chocolate.
  3. Let cool.
  4. Put espresso and cocoa powders in a 2-cup (or larger) glass measuring cup.
  5. Add enough boiling water to come up to the 1 cup measuring line.
  6. Mix until powders dissolve.
  7. Add whiskey and salt; let cool.
  8. Using an electric mixer, beat 1 cup butter until fluffy.
  9. Add sugar and beat until well combined.
  10. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition.
  11. Beat in the vanilla extract, baking soda and melted
  12. chocolate, scraping down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula.
  13. On low speed, beat in a third of the whiskey mixture.
  14. When liquid is absorbed, beat in 1 cup flour.
  15. Repeat additions, ending with whiskey mixture.
  16. Scrape batter into prepared pan and smooth top.
  17. 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).
  18. Transfer cake to a rack. Unmold after 15 minutes and sprinkle warm cake with more whiskey.
  19. Let cool before serving, garnished with confectioners' sugar if you like.

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I'd like to say that I wouldn't like this- but dang, sounds good!


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