Recipe - Chocolate-Walnut Loaves

2 cup Unsifted allpurpose flour
5 One half cup Sugar
2 One half teaspoon Baking powder
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
1 Three fourths cup Heavy cream
3 lg Eggs
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
2 ounce Unsweetened chocolate
One fourth cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
4 ounce Bittersweet chocolate;
finely chopped
One half cup Walnuts; finely chopped
One half cup Boiling water

Preheat oven to 35oF. Grease two 81/2x41/2x25/8 in. loaf pans. Line bottom
with waxed paper. Grease paper, dust with flour. In a saucepan, over low
heat, melt chocolate in One half cup of the heavy cream. Cool 10 minutes. In a
large bowl combine flour, sugar, bajking powder, cocoa and salt. With
electric mixer at low speed, beat well until blended. Add cream, eggs,
vanilla and chocolate mixture. With mixer at low speed, beat just until dry
ingredients are evenly moistened. With mixer at medium speed, beat just
until batter is smooth, about 15 seconds. Stir bitter sweet chocolate,
walnuts and the boiling water into batter until well blended. Divide batter
equally between prepared pans. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until cake tester
inserted in centers comes out clean. Let cool in pans on wire rack 10
minutes. Run knife around edges of loaves; turn out onto racks. Turn up
right and let cool completely.

Recipe by: McCall's December96

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Barb at PK abprice@wf.net on Apr 28, 1998