Recipe (adapted from NYT):
Ingredients
2 sticks (8 oz.) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups all-purpose flour
5 oz. unsweetened chocolate
¼ cup cocoa
1/2 cup bourbon
2 T half and half
½ tsp. salt
2 cups granulated sugar
3 large eggs
1 T. vanilla extract
1 tsp. baking soda
Confectioners’ sugar, for garnish
Fresh raspberries and mint leaves, optional
Directions
Preheat oven to 3251. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler
2. Put the cocoa in a 2-cup measuring cup. Add enough boiling water to come up to the 1 cup measuring line. Stir until the powder dissolves. Add the whiskey, salt, and half and half. Let cool.
3. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter until fluffy. Add the sugar, and beat until well combined. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract, baking soda and melted chocolate.
4. With the mixer on low speed, beat in a third of the whiskey mixture. When liquid is absorbed, beat in 1 cup flour. Repeat additions, ending with the whiskey mixture. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, and smooth the top.
5. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour.
6. Transfer the cake, still in its pan, to a rack. Unmold when the pan is cool to the touch. and sprinkle warm cake with more whiskey (At this stage I had to do some reconstructive Cool completely before serving, garnished with confectioners’ sugar, raspberries and mint leaves.
You've made Ina Garten your bitch...
Posted by: Scott P | November 08, 2009 at 11:53 AM
Didn't Iron Butterfly do a song about her back in the Sixties? Ina Garten Da Vida?
Posted by: gail | November 08, 2009 at 04:57 PM
Oh. I thought it said "Cook the Dog in Sous Vide, Honey".
Posted by: Scott P | November 09, 2009 at 07:46 AM
Where have the cup and the owl gone to?
Posted by: Jake Holmes | November 09, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Nothing to do with bundt cake...
Emmanuel Faye, argues fascist and racist ideas are so woven into the fabric of Heidegger’s theories that they no longer deserve to be called philosophy. As a result Mr. Faye declares, Heidegger’s works and the many fields built on them need to be re-examined lest they spread sinister ideas as dangerous to modern thought as “the Nazi movement was to the physical existence of the exterminated peoples.”
Hmmm.. The concept that some words.. some ideas .. are too toxic to be read both disturbs and disgusts me... Who are the real Nazis..?
Posted by: Jake Holmes | November 09, 2009 at 09:31 AM
Jake, I can't keep up with the daily posting, so I just put up the cup and owl when I feel like it. That way I don't get stressed out.
Also, the idea of censoring Heidegger is moronic. It's like censoring Wagner because Hitler liked his music.
Posted by: gail | November 09, 2009 at 09:51 AM
Or outlawing German shepherds because Hitler had one.
Posted by: gail | November 09, 2009 at 09:52 AM
He did? I always pictured him more as a Dobie kind of guy...
Dont worry about the cup n owl.. I'll just toss my random comments onto your bundt cake posts =).. You know we didnt do a Vampyre Robin this year? I completely forgot..
Posted by: Jake Holmes | November 09, 2009 at 02:02 PM
"The Cup and The Owl" ... that has a nice ring to it.. a good pub name...
Posted by: Jake Holmes | November 09, 2009 at 04:19 PM
I remembered Robin, you all were busy with yer Phasebookin', or whatever the hell that fad is.
Posted by: Scott P | November 09, 2009 at 04:37 PM