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Let Them Eat Cake!

SEP 20, 2012

OK, maybe Marie Antoinette didn’t actually say the immortal phrase.
Still, what better way to remember Marie than by baking this Versailles-worthy confection, courtesy of our restaurant partner UpStairs on the Square’s pâtissiers.

Charlotte au Chocolat

Ingredients

(all ingredients at room temperature except water)

8 oz semi sweet chocolate
1 cup sugar
2 tsp instant dry coffee
½ cup sc. boiling water
½ lb butter
4 eggs
1 tbsp rum

Directions

Place chocolate, sugar in dry food processor bowl
Pulse until broken up
Add coffee to mixing cup with boiling water
Add it to mixture and pulse until chocolate is melted
Add room temperature butter in small pieces, pulsing until smooth (do not over mix)
Add eggs one at a time and pulse
Add rum and pulse
Scoop mixture into foil lined tins
Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes at 350 degrees

Thanks to Mary-Catherine Deibel for the recipe.
Let yourself eat cake (or charlotte) at UpStairs on the Square, 91 Winthrop Street, Harvard Square. If Marie Antoinette were around today, she would be a regular.