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This chocolate dirt cake is the best chocolate dessert for any hot day. A thick crust of chocolate cookie crumbs surrounds a lusciously chilled, chocolates pudding. Finish it off with some whipped cream and much more chocolate crumbs and you've got an ideal contrast of smooth and crunchy chocolate that's impossible to face up to.
This recipe is tailored from an authentic printed in Southern Living's This summer 2010 edition.
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Special equipment:
9-inch cake plate
Ingredients
- 12 ounces chocolate wafter cookies (Nabisco brand is effective), ground to crumbs in mixer
- 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
- 4 ounces (a couple ofOr3 cup) granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons corn starch
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 egg yolks
- 16 ounces (a couple of cups) dairy
- 1 tablespoon vanilla flavoring
- 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, melted and cooled
- 6 ounces chilled heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks
Directions
Separate out 2 ounces of cookie crumbs and hang them aside. Inside a bowl, stir together the rest of the cookie crumbs and butter, and firmly press mixture in to the bottom or more the edges of the 9-inch cake plate. Freeze crust half an hour.
Inside a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the sugar, corn starch, and salt. In a tiny bowl, beat the egg yolks having a whisk, adding these to the dry ingredients and whisk well, before the yolks are pale and smooth, a couple of minutes. Put aside.
Inside a medium saucepan, combine the milk and vanilla and produce to some low boil over medium heat. Once the milk starts to boil, switch off heat and temper the egg mixture with the addition of a bit of the new liquid towards the egg mixture at any given time, whisking along the way. Once all the milk continues to be added, pour the mix into the saucepan and put it over low heat. Prepare, whisking constantly until mixture starts to thicken, about 3 minutes. Still whisk. When the mixture bubbles, whisk for just two additional minutes, then remove from heat. Whisk within the chocolate until fully combined, then pour filling into chilled cake covering. Press plastic wrap outrageous, and chill for 8 hrs to create. When prepared to serve, top with whipped cream and reserved cookie crumbs.
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