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White Cake With Sticky Brownie Base

Courses: Dessert
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Brownie Base
50   Unsalted butter
75   Caster sugar
40   Dark muscovado sugar
50   Plain chocolate
2 teaspoons 10mlGolden syrup
1   Egg
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlVanilla extract
25   Plain flour
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlBaking powder
  Ice Cream
300   White chocolate - broken into pieces
300   Double cream
400   Bought vanilla custard
  To decorate
50   Plain chocolate
  Cocoa powder - for dusting

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease 20cm/8in Springform pan.

In small non-stick pan gently heat butter, sugars, chocolate, syrup, stirring until chocolate melted, mixture smooth.

Remove from heat, leave to cool.

In a bowl, beat egg and vanilla, add to cooled mixture. Sift in flour and baking powder, mix well. Pour into the tin, bake 15 minutes until outside of the brownie is crisp and beginning to shrink away from sides but centre soft to the touch. Leave to cool.

Make ice cream - melt chocolate. Whip cream until it just holds its shape, then whisk in the cold custard. Stir in chocolate until mixture is thick, smooth, well blended. Pour onto cooled brownie, tilt tin to level top.

Melt plain chocolate, with a tsp drop 12 neat blobs onto the ice cream 3 cm from edge. Open freeze 4 hours. Remove, dust with powder.

Source:
BBC Good Food Magazine Feb 1997

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