Drunken Chocolate Cake

Name: Drunken Chocolate Cake
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients: 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped; 5 ounces (1¼ sticks) sweet butter; ⅔ cup dark rum; 4 large eggs, separated; 1¼ cups sugar; 1 cup flour; Pinch salt; 1 recipe Chantilly Cream; 1 cup heavy (whipping) cream; 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate

Preparation info

Serves
8 to 10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Stars Desserts

By Emily Luchetti

Published 1993

About

This cake is an adaptation from Bjorn Olson, a good cook turned architect, and a friend of Jeremiah’s. It is aptly named because of the amount of rum in it.

Ingredients

Chocolate Cake

6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
5 ounces (1¼ sticks)

Dessert
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

To make the cake

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Line the bottom of the cake pan with parchment paper.

Melt the chocolate and butter in the rum in the top half of a double boiler. Set it aside to cool to lukewarm.

Combine t