Kahlua Martini
with Mini-Chocolate Cake
recipe
and photograph creation by Peggy Bucholz www.finedinings.com
Recipe Type: cake, chocolate, Kahlua, cream, dessert
Prep Time: 30 min
Total Time: 30 min
Serves: 8
Ingredients:
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate coarsely chopped
1/2 cup unsalted butter
2 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup all purpose flour
8 (2 ounce) disposable aluminum foil cups
butter for aluminum foil cups
Instruction:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a small saucepan over medium low heat melt chocolate and butter stirring until
smooth; remove from heat and cool.
In small mixing bowl combine eggs, sugar and salt beating on high speed for
5 minutes or until starting to thicken; stir in cooled chocolate mixture. Sift flour over batter and fold in to blend.
Spoon cake batter into eight 2 ounce buttered ramekins or aluminum custard
cups or 2-1/2" muffin tins. Bake for 20 to 22 minutes or until a toothpick
inserted in the center of a cake comes out clean. Remove
from oven to cool. Can be made 1 day ahead.
Prepare
Martini glasses
Honey
Chocolate, finely chopped
Chocolate syrup
Put honey and
chocolate each in separate wide shallow bowls, coat edge of glasses in
honey then the chopped chocolate.
With a spoon make designs of chocolate syrup on the inside of the
martini glasses without disturbing the chocolate coated rims. Refrigerate glasses until
ready to serve.
Kahlua Martini
2 cups
Baileys Irish Cream
1/3 cup Kahlua
8 martini glasses
Carefully pour 1/4 cup Irish cream and 2 tablespoons Kahlua into
martini glasses without disturbing the rims.
How to
Serve
8 Ice
cream balls (use a little melon baller)
8 mint sprigs for garnish
Unmold cakes placing them upside down on individual serving
plates, put ice cream ball on
top with a mint sprig, serve with a Kahlua Martini and enjoy!
