• Thursday, February 15, 2007 - Double Chocolate Rum Dipped Cake

I made this up for the Valentine of mine (My husband). He loves chocolate. I do too. So does everyone else here. So, I grabbed some things, and a helper to help me, and off we went to experiment! Here's what we came up with, and oh my goodness, I will get a picture up if I can remember. Sometimes I forget that so, so much. I need to keep a blog journal page to keep up with what I need to do.  Ok, here we go: Oven: 350 degrees Bake Time: 1 hour or till toothpick or whatnot is dry tested Cake Mixture 1 cup of milk 3/4 cup of cocoa 1 cup of butter 1/3 cup of sugar (Sweetner of your choice...) 1 cup of brown sugar 3 eggs 2 cups of flour (cake flour if you have it) 1 tsp vanilla 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda 1/2 teaspoon of salt (needed) This is all blended together and put aside. Pudding Mixture 1 cup of sugar 3/4 cup of cocoa lil pinch of salt 3/4 cup of water 1/3 cup of chocolate chips. Whatever you like for taste. 4 cups of milk 1/2 cup of cornstarch 1 tablespoon of vanilla Mix the cocoa and sugar together in a saucepan, add water and cook till smooth. keep on heat and stir constantly, remove from heat after the mixture becomes thicker. Stir in chocolate until it's melted. Add in the milk, keeping half a cup of the milk to the side. Mix well and make smooth. Take the cornstarch and add it to the reserved milk, mix till smooth. Add this mixture to the chocolate mix. Return the entire thing to heat, stirring all the time. When it gets to a thick mixture, reduce the heat, stirring constantly. Let it simmer a bit, then add in vanilla. Mix well. Put into a bowl and put in fridge till chilled and firm. Once the pudding is chilled and firm, remove it from the fridge. Get the cake mixture ready as well. Combine both of the mixtures together and blend well. Then gather together the following items: 3/4 cup water 1 cup of rum 5 eggs 1 cup of oil (Vegetable is best) full package (16 oz) of semi-sweet chocolate chips You need to get a bundt pan for this. Dust it off with some flour and spray or what you like to use. Add the water, rum, oil, and eggs into the main batter and mix very, very well. Pour this into the bundt pan, slide it into the oven, and bake. When there is only 20 minutes left to bake the cake, take the pan out, pre-spray once more, just in case, and dust with flour, and then add the chocolate chips all over the top. Return to oven, and bake. While this bakes, gather together: 1 cup of rum 1 cup of chocolate chips Add to a saucepan, let cook together for a bit, stirring constantly, till chocolate melts. Add more if you like. Once mixed, let cook and thicken up just till syrup-like in texture. Once the cake is pulled and cooled off, take the syrup and pour it over the cake. This cake was outrageously yummy! It has a lot of steps, but it's good as can be!

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