Yeah boys yeah gals! Let me share with you my go to Chocolate cake. First the ingredients: 1 Cup bourbon or scotch whiskey 10 ounces ( 2 cups) cake flour (better results) or all-purpose flour 1 3/4 cups sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 2 sticks unsalted butter 1/3 cup high-quality cocoa powder (I use Penzey's) 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon fine ground espresso powder or coffee. Secret ingredient to any chocolate dessert 1/2 tsp fine salt 2 large eggs 1/2 cup sour cream 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Take some bourbon or scotch whiskey, pour in a Mason jar and enjoy while making the cake. Now to the cake.Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix the flour, baking soda, salt sugar in a large bowl. Set that aside. In a sauce pan, add butter, milk, espresso and cocoa powder. Heat on medium low heat until butter is melted and the mess is mixed well. Add half of the milk mixture to the dry ingredients. Mix then add the rest of the milk mess. Mix well, add eggs, one at a time, mixing thoroughly before adding the next egg. Add sour cream, mix that mess, add vanilla extract. Mix thoroughly. Butter your cake pan, I use a deep cast iron skillet for all my baking. Pour that in your baking utensil and bake until a tooth pick comes out clean after a pokey pokey test. Yeah sorta like rib test. Should take 40 to 50 minutes. Ovens are different do start the tooth pick test at 40 minute mark. Now let's make our Ganache. You'll need 8 ounces semi sweet chocolate. I use chocolate chips 1/2 a cup heavy cream. Promised land make the best. Put the chips in a heatproof bowl. Heat the cream just until it seems to start to summer. Pour it over the cream, make sure all the chips are covered. Do not stir, leave that mess alone for about 5 minutes then stir it up. Once the cake is cool and ganache has thicken, smear it all over the cake like this. At this point the bourbon should've kicked in, wife excited etc. Now enjoy it with some vanilla ice cream Or some orange cream sauce Let me go back to my bourbon.
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My toys:
Weber Summit Charcoal Grilling Center (WSCGC) aka Mr. Fancypants
Pit Barrel Cooker (which rocks), named Pretty Baby
Weber Summit S650 Gas Grill, named Hot 'n Fast (used mostly for searing and griddling)
Weber Kettle Premium 22" named Kettle Kid, eager to horn in with more cooks in the future
Camp Chef Somerset IV 4-burner outdoor gas range named AfterBurner due to its 30kBTU burners
Adrenaline BBQ Company Gear:SnS Low Profile, DnG, and Large Charcoal Basket, for WSCGC
SnS Deluxe for 22" Kettle
Elevated SS Rack for WSCGC
SS Rack for DnG
Cast Iron GriddleGrill Grate for SnSGrill Grates: five 17.375 sections (retired to storage)
Grill Grates: six 19.25 panels for exact fit for Summit S650
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Grill Grates for 22" Kettle
2 Grill Grate Griddles
Steelmade Griddle for Summit gas grill
Fireboard Gear:Extreme BBQ Thermometer PackagePit Viper Fan (to pair with Fireboard Fan Driver Cable)
Additional control unit
Additional probes: Competition Probes 1" (3) and 4" (1), 3 additional Ambient Probes. 1 additional Food Probe
2 Driver Cables
Pit Viper Fan new design (to pair with Fireboard Fan Driver Cable)
Thermoworks Gear:Thermapen MK4 (pink)Maverick ET 73 a little workhorse with limited range
Thermapen Classic (pink too)
Thermoworks MK4 orange
Temp Test 2 Smart Thermometer
Extra Big and Loud Timer
Timestick Trio
Maverick ET 733
Maverick (Ivation) ET 732
Grill Pinz
Vortex (two of them)
18" drip pan for WSCGC
Ceramic Spacers for WSCGC in Kamado Mode: 2 sets each 1/2", 1", 2". The 2" spacers work best with the 18" drip pan. The 1+1/2 inch spacers work best with the 14 inch cake pan.
Two Joule Sous Vide devices
3 Lipavi Sous Vide Tubs with Lids: 12, 18 and 26 quarts
Avid Armor Ultra Pro V32 Chamber Sealer
Instant Pot 6 Quart Electric Pressure Cooker
Instant Pot 10 Quart Electric Pressure Cooker
Charcoal Companion TurboQue
A-Maze-N tube 12 inch tube smoker accessory for use with pellets
BBQ Dragon and Dragon Chimney
Shun Classic Series:8" Chef Knife
6" Chef's Knife
Gokujo Boning and Fillet Knife
3 1/2 inch Paring Knife
Golly, that looks good! Bourbon and chocolate? Nothing not to like there. I'm so going to use this recipe, Ernest. Thanks!
Kathryn
P.S. is that a 10 inch iron skillet?
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- May 2014
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- Charlotte, NC
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- Slow 'N Sear Kamado
- Slow 'N Sear Kettle
- Lots of grills that work with Slow 'N Sear
- LOTS of digital thermometers
- LOTS of accessories
- Favorite Beer - Fat Tire
- Favorite Bourbon - Woodford Reserve
- Favorite White Wine - Cakebread Chardonnay
- Favorite Red Wine - Yes, Please
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- Jul 2014
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- Nevada, TX
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Charbroil Red infrared gas grill, 3 burner
Cookshack AmeriQue electric smoker
New Braunfels Bandera charcoal/wood tower smoker
Weber portable kettle charcoal grill
I have a wonderful assortment of temperature reading devices, like infrared, instant read, and stay in brands.... all are good and kept in calibration.
I love beer guys... I can say I've tasted/sampled hundreds, maybe a thousand. I brew my own and love local Texas selections. Shiner has a wonderful selection of brews I like. There are many others in Texas worth putting to your lips. I drink what tastes good, no matter where it's brewed!
I experiment with food on the grill/smoker and in the oven. I'm inspired with what I read. I love to show off with family & friends.
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