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Better Than Sex Cake Number 1 (Death by Chocolate)
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Category: Desserts: Cake, cookies, mousse, puddings, etc..
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Posted by: Jane (UseNet)
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Quantity: ??
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Ingredients:
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1 recipe Grand Slam brownies 1 cup kahlua (or your
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(recipe follows) favorite liqueur)
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1 recipe chocolate mousse 4 crushed Heath Bars or Skor
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(recipe follows, or use Bars (or brickle bits from
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instant pudding) the baking aisle)
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1 cup chopped nuts 1 cup mini chocolate chips
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1 pint heavy cream, whipped
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Instructions:
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Prepare the brownies. Let them cool, and then pierce with a
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fork and drizzle with liqueur. Refrigerate several hours or
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overnight. Prepare the mousse or pudding. Break the brownies
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up into 1-2" chunks. Using a trifle bowl or some other
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medium sized glass bowl, layer half of the brownies, half of
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the mousse, half of the whipped cream, half of the nuts,
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half of the toffee bars and half of the chocolate chips.
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Repeat the layering with the rest of the ingredients.
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Refrigerate until ready to serve.
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Better Than Sex Cake Number 1: Grand Slam Brownies
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Ingredients:
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8 oz unsweetened chocolate, 1 1/2 sticks unsalted
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chopped butter, cut into pieces
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1 c. sifted all-purpose 1/4 t baking powder
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flour
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1/2 t salt 1 t instant coffee powder
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4 t water 4 extra large eggs, at room
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temperature
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3 c. sugar
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Instructions:
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Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325. Butter
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sides and bottoms of 2 9 by 9 pans. Flour pans, tapping out
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excess.
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Melt unsweetened chocolate and butter in heavy small
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saucepan over very low heat, stirring until smooth. Cool to
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room temperature.
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Sift flour, baking powder and salt into small bowl. Place
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coffee powder in large bowl. Add water and stir to dissolve.
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Add eggs and sugar. Using electric mixer, beat until the
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mixture is pale yellow and a slowly dissolving ribbon forms
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when beaters are lifted. Fold in melted chocolate, then dry
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ingredients. Spread batter in prepared pans. Bake until top
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is dry and cracked and toothpick inserted in center comes
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out with some wet batter still attached, about 38 minutes.
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Better Than Sex Cake Number 1: Chocolate Mousse
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Ingredients:
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3/4 lb. bittersweet 3 large eggs, at room
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chocolate, chopped temperature
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2 c. well chilled heavy
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cream
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Instructions:
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In the top of a double boiler or a metal bowl set over
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barely simmering water melt the chocolates together,
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stirring occasionally. In a chilled large bowl with an
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electric mixer beat the cream until it just holds stiff
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peaks. Whisk the egg yolks all at once into the warm
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chocolate. Whisk in half the whipped cream, and fold the
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mixture into the remaining whipped cream gently but
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thoroughly. Chill until ready to serve or use.
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Comments:
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(Note : This goes *REALLY* well with strawberries)
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