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Chocolate Eclipse




Source of Recipe


(Billk54)


List of Ingredients




2 tablespoons butter
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
2 cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups unbleached flour
2 1/4 cups brown sugar, packed, divided use
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (optional)
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 1/2 cups boiling water


Recipe



Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13x9-inch baking pan.

Melt butter and unsweetened chocolate together.

In a saucepan, heat buttermilk gently until just a little warmer than body temperature. Do NOT boil or cook it.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, 1 cup of the brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix well, using hands if necessary to break up any lumps and making as uniform a mixture as possible.

Stir in chocolate chips, if desired. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir until well combined. Spread in prepared pan.

Combine remaining 1 1/4 cups brown sugar with unsweetened cocoa in a small bowl. Sprinkle as evenly as possible over the top of the batter in the pan.

Pour on the boiling water. (It will look terrible and you will feel sure that you have ruined the whole thing; persevere.) Place immediately into the prepared oven.

Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the center is firm to the touch. Cool at least 15 minutes before serving. Invert each serving so that the fudge sauce on the bottom becomes a topping.

Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, if desired.

Best served within 1-2 hours of baking. Also good cold.

Notes: This dessert is fashioned after one of my mother's specialties that she would make about once a year (usually when a grade school teacher came over for lunch). It is soft, moist chocolate cake with a built-in pudding-like fudge sauce that ends up underneath.
Even though Chocolate Eclipse tastes very rich, it is actually less so than a regular chocolate cake. It has a similar amount of chocolate and sugar, but contains only 2 tablespoons of butter and no eggs.
Chocolate Eclipse tastes best about an hour or two after it has emerged from the oven. For an ultimate experience, serve it with vanilla ice cream.

Servings: 8-12