Wednesday, September 5, 2007

This cake has won several awards for me in the past years.
Cake:
6 whole eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon rum concentrate
1 cup cake flour
In a 5 quart mixing bowl whip the eggs and rum concentrate adding the sugar 1/3 at a time allowing 3 to 4 minutes between additions until all the sugar is in, whip until real fluffy and fold in your cake flour, add mixture to 3-9x1inch cake pans, bake in preheated 350 degree oven until golden brown, cool.
Syrup For Cake: 1 cup corn syrup 1/2 cup rum concentrate Combine corn syrup and rum concentrate
When cake is cool drizzle syrup on to all 3 layers of cake.
Filling:
6 egg yolks
3 tablespoons corn starch
1/3 cup sugar
2 cup milk
1/2 cup rum concentrate

In a stainless steel sauce pan whip together eggs, cornstarch, sugar, milk and rum concentrate. Place pan on stove over medium heat until thick mixing regularly, don't burn. Cool to room temperature.
Assemble Cake:
Your cake is now ready to be frosted: Frost with whip cream. Don't forget to put your sliced almonds on the sides and shaved chocolate on top with the cherries.

About The Author Andrew Krause is a Chef and Pastry Chef for over 30 years, at persent I own a Gourmet Bakery called The Cheese Confectioner. You can visit my site at Free Gourmet Cheesecake Recipes NOTE: You are welcome to reprint this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the about the author info at the end). Please a send a copy of your reprint to pastrie@verizon.net


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Chocolate Rasperry Cake
This is a moist chocolate cake recipe, it is a 3 layer cake with 2 layers of raspberry cream filling and topped with a chocolate raspberry butter cream icing. Are you salivating yet?
To make this cake use your favorite chocolate cake recipe or for the inexperienced baker just use 2 dark chocolate cake mixes.
Mix with
8 medium eggs
2 cups cold water
2/3 cup oil
Mix on medium speed until well blended, scrape bowl, mix for 1 more minute.
Pour in equal portions into 3 (10x2 inch baking pans).
Bake at 350 degree preheated oven for approximately 30 to 40 minutes or until done. Cool on rack, remove from pans, level cakes by cutting off rounded tops.
Purchase a good fruitful raspberry pastry filling (H&H) is the best, place about 1 pound of filling in a bowl and add whip cream to it (whip the cream first) now fold them together until you reach the desired flavor and thickness (don't make it too thin).
Use any chocolate butter cream recipe that you like and add to the icing (black raspberry extract) until you reach the desired flavor (if you make the icing too thin just add some more 10x sugar).
Assemble the cake:
On the bottom layer put a dam of icing around the edge and your filling in the center and smooth to level, repeat for 2nd and 3rd layer, decorate as in picture, use shaved chocolate or chocolate jimmies in center of the top.


About The Author Andrew Krause is a Chef and Pastry Chef for over 30 years, at persent I own a Gourmet Bakery called The Cheese Confectioner. You can visit my site at Free Gourmet Cheesecake Recipes NOTE: You are welcome to reprint this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the about the author info at the end). Please a send a copy of your reprint to pastrie@verizon.net