
Yvette's Chocolate Velvet Cake
Genoise cake:
3 eggs, at room temperature
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. flour
6 tsp. melted butter
Chocolate mousse filling:
3 oz. semisweet chocolate
1 tbsp. butter
3 egg yolks, lightly beaten
3 egg whites, whipped
1 tbsp. each creme de cassis,
Myers dark rum and creme de cacao
21 oz. heavy cream, whipped
Chocolate glaze:
5 oz. semisweet chocolate
1 oz. melted butter
Creme Anglaise (recipe follows)
Cake: in a warmed bowl, whip eggs
and sugar until a strong ribbon
forms. Add vanilla and fold in flour.
Pour in melted butter and fold. Pour
into a 2-inch-deep round cake pan
that has been buttered and floured.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25
minutes, or until cake tester inserted
in center comes out clean. Remove cake
from pan and cool on a rack.
Filling: Melt chocolate over steam
(double boiler) with butter. Add egg
yolks, beating until smooth. Then
fold in, first, the whipped egg
whites, then the liquor. Fold in whipped cream.
Glaze: Melt chocolate in double
boiler with melted butter.
Slice cake into 3 (1/2-inch) layers.
Spoon filling onto bottom layer top
with middle layer and spoon filling
on that, then put top layer in place.
Chill for an hour. Spread Chocolate
glaze over cake. Serve with Creme
Anglaise. Makes 1 cake.