Recipe - Queen Mother Cake

6 ounce Sweet or semi sweet
chocolate.
Three fourths cup Butter
Three fourths cup Sugar
6 Eggs separated
6 ounce Or 1 One half C finely ground
almonds
1/8 teaspoon Salt

FROSTING
One half cup Heavy cream
2 teaspoon Instant coffee
8 ounce Chocolate..; (use the same
as used in cake)

Move oven rack 1/3 of the way from bottom of oven. Preheat oven to 375.
Butter a 9x2 One half spring form pan and line bottom with wax paper. Butter and
crumb wax paper. Melt chocolate over double boiler and let cool. While
cooling..cream butter and add sugar. Then add one yolk at a time and mix
thouroghly. Add cooled chocolate and at low speed add almonds. In a large
bowl whip egg whites and salt til it begins to form firm peaks. Then with a
spatula fold in chocolate mixture a 1/3 at a time. Pour into pan.

Bake at 375 for 20 mins. Reduce temp to 350 and bake an additional 50 mins.
(total time 1hr 10 mins) Remove from oven and let cool. (Cake may crack
during the cooking but not to worry it deflates and repairs itself as it
cools) Us a warm towel to wrap around the pan to loosen cake. Remove spring
form and invert to remove wax paper. Invert again to cake plate to cool
right side up.

Frosting: Scald cream til small bubbles form or skin develops. Add coffee
and chocolate. Beat well with wire wisk. Remove from heat and set in bowl
of cool water to stop cooking process. Frosting will begin to thicken.

Place wax strips under edges of cake to catch frosting. Pour frosting over
cake and spread evenly with frosting spatula. Remove wax strips from bottom
before frosting sets.

This is soo rich..soo decadent..and soo very good! Enjoy!

Posted to EATL Digest by Aimee2845 Aimee2845@AOL.COM on Dec 17, 1997