Chocolate Shadow Cake

Name: Chocolate Shadow Cake
Yield: Makes 12 pieces
Ingredients: 4 large, egg whites; 3 tablespoons, water; 1 1/4 cups (8¾ ounces; 248 grams), sugar; 1 teaspoon, cream of tartar; Pinch, salt; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 3 (8-inch), chocolate cake rounds; 4 ounces (113 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 tablespoons, light corn syrup

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2008

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Cakes

Great American Cakes

Its name invokes the spirit of Halloween, but what could be scary about a rich chocolate butter cake layered with fluffy seven-minute icing and topped with a drippy chocolate glaze?

SERVESMakes 12 pieces

TIME1 hour

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This rich chocolate butter cake is layered with fluffy seven-minute icing and topped with a drippy chocolate glaze. We added light corn syrup to the chocolate glaze so that it clung tightly to the cake and had a glossy texture. Using an off...

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