Thursday, October 08, 2009

Chocolate Honey Cake שאָקאָלאַדער לעקעך

Chocolate lekekh. Since we were celebrating a birthday on yontif, mimetic candles are made of baby carrots and sour cherries, both from Stoneledge Farm

The honeycake recipe that I have been making for the last decade has some chocolate as a seasoning, but it is not really a chocolate cake. Here at last is the deeply chocolate honey cake you have all been waiting for. כּי לקח טובֿ נתתּי לכם

Chocolate Honey Cake

Preheat oven to 400F. Prepare several cake or loaf pans.

Melt over simmering water

6 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped

Sift dry ingredients together:

24 ounces (6 cups) all-purpose flour (You may use part or all whole wheat pastry flour)

1 scant tablespoon ginger

2 teaspoons cinnamon

2 teaspoons allspice

2 tablespoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ cup cocoa

2 teaspoons kosher salt

Blend together in processor or blender:

8 ounces (1 cup) pitted prunes

1/2 cup ginger preserves

In a mixer combine:

2 tablespoons instant coffee

1 cup boiling water

1 pound (about 2 scant cups) bamboo honey

1 ½ cups butter (3 sticks, 12 ounces), or coconut oil, or vegetable oil

2 cups dark brown sugar (1 pound)

2 teaspoons vanilla

4 tablespoons slivovitz

6 extra-large or jumbo eggs (added at last minute)

Combine the prune-ginger-mix into the coffee-butter mix and stir in the melted unsweetened chocolate. Gently fold the coffee-ginger-chocolate into the dry ingredients.

Then fold in:

4 grated pears (about 12 ounces pear pulp and juice)

8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped, or chips

Pour and scrape the batter into prepared loaf-pans and/or cake pans. Bake 15 minutes at 400, 15 minutes at 375, and 15 minutes at 350. The cakes are done when a tester comes out clean and they offer mild resistance to a touch.

This recipe yielded one large loaf cake, and eight small (8-inch) loaf cakes. I guess you could make half the amount, but the cakes stay good for two weeks, and in fact get better every day.

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7 Comments:

Blogger Ruth said...

I have been following you for ages and haven't commented on so many wonderful posts, but you have forced me out of my silence with "ki lekach tov"--I love you, and that's before I've even tried to make the cake.

Moadim l'simcha.

10:24 AM  
Blogger zoe p. said...

How did you know? I have been waiting for a deeply chocolate honey cake!

9:36 AM  
Blogger the chocolate doctor מרת שאקאלאד said...

ruth,
mad love to you I hope you enjoy the cake.


zp,
I just knew.

11:00 PM  
Blogger Mrs. Belogski said...

i have been making that joke every time i make honey cake for ages, but no-one ever laughs! pleased to have found someone else who thinks it's funny.

Loved cheese or font!

5:20 PM  
Blogger The Northernmost Jew said...

You could make two of those carrot antennae at one end of the cake and call it a slug cake. Maybe paint some eyes on the cherries and make a honey trail down the table.

4:07 AM  
Blogger the chocolate doctor מרת שאקאלאד said...

Mrs B,
In good health!

TNJ,
I will try this next time.

11:21 PM  
Anonymous Kenneth Silverman said...

Dear Eve J--

Very sorry to say I am unable to make our last class this afternoon at the Circle. But I would have thanked you in person for the many informative and lively classes I did attend under your teaching.

With Best Wishes--

Kenneth Silverman

7:53 AM  

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