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Sumptuous Chocolate Cookie Cake

Description
Your host or hostess would surely be delighted if you showed up on his or her doorstep with this rich and decadent treat. A surefire party pleaser!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) plus 1 table-spoon unsalted butter
  • 1/4 cup corn syrup
  • 7 ounces Green & Black's Organic 72 percent Bittersweet Baking Bar, broken into pieces
  • 1 egg
  • 2 ounces graham crackers (about 8)
  • 1/2 cup whole walnuts
  • 1/4 cup golden raisins
  • 1/3 cup candied cherries, reserve a few for decoration

Preparation
Preparation time: 15 minutes | Chilling time: 4 hours

Use: 8- x 3-inch loaf pan

Line loaf pan with waxed paper or alternately butter pan. Set aside.

Melt butter and corn syrup together in small saucepan over gentle heat until they begin to boil.

Melt chocolate in top of double boiler over barely simmering water, then mix thoroughly with butter and corn syrup mixture.

Beat egg slowly and continuously into hot chocolate mixture.

In separate bowl, break graham crackers into large chunks.

Add walnuts, raisins and most of cherries to cracker mixture.

Pour chocolate mixture into cracker mixture and mix with spatula or wooden spoon.

Press mixture into pan and decorate with reserved cherries. Refrigerate mixture about four hours. To serve, peel off waxed paper and cut into slices or cubes. Serve chilled.

Nutrition
no information available

Serves
Makes: 10 large slices

Variations
no information available

Source Green & Black's™ Organic



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