Great Chocolate Goo Cake

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Title: Great Chocolate Goo Cake
Categories: Cakes, Chocolate
Yield: 12 servings

3/4 lb Unsalted butter
2 2/3 c Semisweet chocolate chips
c Milk
7 Egg yolks
Whipped heavy cream for
-topping

Melt the butter over low heat and allow it to cool to room
temperature. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Cut a round of waxed paper to fit the bottom of a 9 inch
springform pan. Butter the sides of the pan and one side
of the waxed paper. Place the paper in the pan, butter
side up. In a saucepan over very low heat, heat the
chocolate and milk, stirring constantly, just until the
chocolate is melted. You will note that at every step the
batter for this cake smells better than it did at the last
one. Pour the mixture into the large bowl of an electric
mixer. Beat on low speed, just to smooth out any bitzy
lumps of chocolate. With the mixer running at low speed,
add about a seventh of the melted butter (a shy 1/4 cup)
and beat at low speed unly until the butter is fully
absorbed. Then add an egg yolk and beat, at low speed, just
until the mixture has fully absorbed it. Don't raise the
speed of the mixer, because we don't want to beat in any
air. It's not supposed to be a fluffy cake, it's supposed
to be a fudgy lump of goo.

Continue to alternate additions of butter and egg yolk
until all are used up, scraping the bowl with a ribber
spatula and beating after each addition only until
incorporated. When the mixture is smooth, pour it into the
prepared pan. Set the pan on a cookie sheet (despite my
wonderful improvement it still might weep a bit). Put the
whole thing in the oven (not near the top). Bake for 25
minutes. It will be soupy in the middle and look like a
mistake, but unless you forgot to turn the oven on, it is
done. The cake will not have risen so as you'd notice.
Allow it to cool on a rack, then refrigerate a few hours,
until firm. It may be kept refrigerated a day or two. When
ready to serve, cut around the side of the pan with a
small, sharp knife and release and remove the side of the
pan. Cover the dessert with a flat plate and invert.
Carefully (it takes a bit of doing) pry up and remove the
bottom of the pan and the waxed paper. Decorate with
whipped cream. (I like to make a simple lattice pattern
that lets the dark, dark chocolate show through.) Serves
12. "Caramel Knowledge" by Al Sicherman.

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