french chocolate layer cake

How To Make french chocolate layer cake

• 1

  Combine espresso, hot water, semisweet chocolate and bitter chocolate in double boiler filled with hot water and cover.
• 2

  Without applying additional heat, melt the chocolate.
• 3

  Butter two layer-cake pans, lay a sheet of waxed paper in each, and dust the pans with flour. (The pans should be able to hold about 4 cups each.)
• 4

  Beat the egg yolks and then gradually add about 2/3 cup of sugar until the yolks are thick and lemon colored; beat butter into the chocolate mixture.
• 5

  Add the chocolate mixture to the egg yolks and stir.
• 6

  Beat the egg whites until foamy; add the cream of tartar, and then gradually add up to 2 tablespoons sugar.
• 7

  Add the sifted corn starch gradually to the chocolate mixture, alternating with the egg whites - The corn starch and egg whites should be folded in to the chocolate mixture.
• 8

  Pour half the batter into each cake pan; bake on the lower middle level of a preheated 350 oven until set on the sides.
• 9

  Cool the cake in the pan, and then turn out onto a serving dish.
• 10

  Combine the icing ingredients and ice the cake as you would a normal layer cake.
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