Magic Chocolate Flan Cake

Name: Magic Chocolate Flan Cake
Yield: Serves 16
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, caramel sauce or topping; 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (3 1/8 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1/3 cup (1 ounce), cocoa; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 4 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1/2 cup, buttermilk; 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces), sugar; 2 large, eggs; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 2 (14-ounce) cans, sweetened condensed milk; 2 1/2 cups, whole milk; 6 ounces, cream cheese; 6 , large eggs plus 4 large yolks; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2013, Cook's Country TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

An all-in-one dessert that combines a fudgy chocolate base with rich flan and sticky caramel—and performs magic in the oven, too? We had to see it to believe it.

SERVES16

TIME2 hours, plus 2 hours cooling and 8 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

This hybrid dessert has a layer of chocolate cake and a layer of caramel-coated flan that “magically” switch places as they bake. For ease, we started with a simple dump-and-stir chocolate cake recipe. At first, the flan added too much mois...

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