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Chocolate Gilded Danish Sugar Cones Recipe


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Ingredients
  • === CHOCOLATE GANACHE ===
  • 1/4 c Cocoa powder
  • 12 oz Bittersweet chocolate; sliced
  • === CHOCOLATE GENOISE CAKE ===
  • Raspberries
  • Powdered sugar
  • 1 c Heavy cream
  • 1 c Sugar
  • 2 c Homemade or prepared raspberry filling
  • 1 c Heavy cream; whipped
  • 3/4 c Cake flour
  • 6 Eggs
  • Mint sprigs
  • === ASSEMBLY ===
  • 1 pn Baking soda
  • === GARNISH ===
  • 1 tb Cornstarch
  • 2 tb Butter; melted

Directions
  • Step #1 preheat your trusty oven to 350 degrees.
  • Step #2 Butter & flour an 8-inch cake pan.
  • Step #3 Genoise: Into a small bowl sift together flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch & baking soda.
  • Step #4 In a large metal bowl set over barely simmering water, whisk eggs & sugar with a hand-held electric beater until thick, foamy & doubled in volume.
  • Step #5 Mixture should form a ribbon when beaters are lifted.
  • Step #6 Make sure that mixture does not get too hot & curdle eggs.
  • Step #7 remove this from heat & carefully fold in flour mixture until just mixd.
  • Step #8 Fold in melted butter & pour this into cake pan.
  • Step #9 Bake 20 mins until cake is springy to touch.
  • Step #10 Cool in pan 10 mins on a cake rack, turn out & cool completely.
  • Step #11 Ganache: In a small saucepan bring cream to a boil over high heat.
  • Step #12 remove this from heat & whisk in chocolate.
  • Step #13 Let cool, stirring every once in awhile, until thickened, but still pourable.
  • Step #14 Assembly: Halve cake crosswise.
  • Step #15 On a cake rack set over a baking sheet, cover bottom cake layer with raspberry filling & replace top layer.
  • Step #16 Over center of cake pour ganache & smooth over top & sides with a palette knife until evenly coated.
  • Step #17 Let icing set, about 1 hr.
  • Step #18 To decorate, pipe whipped cream as desired, arrange raspberries & mint & dust with powdered sugar.
  • Step #19 This recipe yields 10 servings.
  • Step #20 Comments: The original recipe title as listed is ?Chocolate Genoise Cake With Raspberry Filling & Chocolate Ganache?.
  • Step #21 --.
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