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| This Recipe contributed by:
Lisa Kuhn Quinn EMAIL RESERVATIONS: lisa.dormousehouse@gmail.com
Innkeeper of Dormouse House Garden Bed and Breakfast
in Villennes-Sur-Seine, Greater Paris
, France
| The basis for this recipe originally came from California, where Lisa is from.
Ingredients: 2 oz/squares unsweetened chocolate 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa (if available, may be left out but adds flavor) 2 c sugar, white, brown, or mixed 1/2 buttermilk (sour milk or milk w/1 t. lemon may be sub.) 1 t vanilla 1 c warm water 2 c flour 1 1/2 t baking soda 1/2 t salt 2 eggs
Directions: Melt chocolate and 1/2 c butter in micro on low. In a mixing bowl, combine sugar, buttermilk, and vanilla and beat to blend. Add the chocolate mixture, and then the warm water, beating in. In another bowl mix cocoa if using, flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to chocolate mixture and beat in. Add the eggs and beat for 2 min. Mixture will be thin.
Bake in a 9x13" pan (or use what you like) and bake at preheated 350 degree oven for about 50 min.
For icing, try the following Fudge Icing: 2 oz Unsweetened chocolate 1/2 c butter 1/2 brown sugar 1/3 cup whipping cream (sour cream may be substituted) 2 T. corn syrup (golden syrup may be substituted in a pinch) 1 t. vanilla pinch salt
Melt all in a micro stirring halfway. Will be fudgelike. Use while still warm, working quickly before it hardens. May also be flavored with creme de cacao, brandy, etc. | | (Updated: 29 Apr 2007) | | |