Boca Negra (bourbon Chocolate Cake)

Total Time: 8 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 8 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 12 ounces white chocolate, finely chopped
• 1/4 cup bourbon (or more to taste)
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup bourbon
• 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 1 cup unsalted butter, cut into 10 pieces, at room temperature
• 5 eggs, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 tablespoons flour

Recipe

• 1 heat the cream in a saucepan until small form around the edge. meanwhile, put the white chocolate in a food processor or in a blender container. pour the cream over the chocolate; process until completely smooth. add the bourbon; taste and add up to a tablespoon more if you like.
• 2 pour into a container with a tight-fitting lid; refrigerate 8 hours. (the cream can be kept in the refrigerator for a week or frozen for up to a month; thaw overnight in refrigerator.).
• 3 heat oven to 350 degrees.
• 4 lightly butter a 9-inch round cake pan; line the bottom with buttered parchment or wax paper. put the cake pan in a shallow roasting pan; set aside.
• 5 for the cake, heat the sugar and bourbon to a full boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. cook to a syrup, about 2 minutes.
• 6 place the chocolate in a food processor; pour the syrup into the work bowl. process until the mixture is completely blended, about 12 seconds.
• 7 add the butter, in pieces, with the machine running.
• 8 add the eggs, one at a time.
• 9 add the flour. process until smooth, about 15 seconds.
• 10 transfer the batter into the prepared pan.
• 11 pour enough hot water into the roasting pan to come about 1 inch up the sides of the cake pan.
• 12 bake until the top is dry, about 30 minutes. remove the cake pan from its water bath; wipe the cake pan dry.
• 13 cover the top of the cake with a sheet of plastic wrap. invert the cake a flat plate, peel off the parchment.
• 14 quickly but gently invert again a serving platter; remove the plastic. serve the cake warm or at room temperature with the chilled white chocolate cream.