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Let Them Eat Cake!
SEP 20, 2012
OK, maybe Marie Antoinette didn’t actually say the immortal phrase.
Still, what better way to remember Marie than by baking this Versailles-worthy confection, courtesy of our restaurant partner UpStairs on the Square’s pâtissiers.
Charlotte au Chocolat
Ingredients
(all ingredients at room temperature except water)
8 oz semi sweet chocolate
1 cup sugar
2 tsp instant dry coffee
½ cup sc. boiling water
½ lb butter
4 eggs
1 tbsp rum
Directions
- Place chocolate, sugar in dry food processor bowl
- Pulse until broken up
- Add coffee to mixing cup with boiling water
- Add it to mixture and pulse until chocolate is melted
- Add room temperature butter in small pieces, pulsing until smooth (do not over mix)
- Add eggs one at a time and pulse
- Add rum and pulse
- Scoop mixture into foil lined tins
- Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes at 350 degrees
Thanks to Mary-Catherine Deibel for the recipe.
Let yourself eat cake (or charlotte) at UpStairs on the Square, 91 Winthrop Street, Harvard Square. If Marie Antoinette were around today, she would be a regular.
