One of Savannah's best chefs, Patrick McNamara of Noble Fare, is helping Paula in the kitchen to add some local flavor to a dessert as sinful as it is scrumptious, Chocolate Molten Love Cake!
Ingredients:
1 lb sweet butter
1 lb 64% dark chocolate
1/2 lb sugar
9 eggs
4 1/2 oz sifted, divided cake flour
3 cups (40%) heavy cream
1 split and seeds scraped vanilla bean
9 egg yolks
1 pint fresh raspberries
2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup plus 7 tablespoons, divided water
1 cup whole milk
14 oz melted unsalted butter
14 oz chopped pistachios
4 oz bittersweet chocolate
1/4 cup butter
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0:01
save room for dessert right I'm ready
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for a little love baby we're gonna take
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a little bit of chocolate okay Patrick
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but I'm taking my steak with me buddy
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perfect double boiler here Paulette you
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want to do a favor for me and you want
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to crack five there and what we'll do
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with the eggs I'll measure out some
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sugar and we'll take the eggs in with
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their sugar won't cream up just a little
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and Patricks using six ounces of a
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bittersweet chocolate along with 1/4 of
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a cup of sugar and I'm gonna let that
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chocolate melts I'm gonna take a little
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bit of the butter down there in the
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garbage Smith Rosal two sticks or 1/2 a
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pollen either or and then we're gonna
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take a rubber spatula kind of melt this
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up get it going a little bit we've got
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that in a double ball or Yahoo so that
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it won't scorch on us right correct we
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just want to infuse and incorporate
0:58
marry the chocolate the butter together
1:01
mmm okay we're gonna let that do the
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work here thank you let that go
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endeavor I'm gonna take this whisk cream
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this a little bit you don't want to whip
1:11
too much air into it we don't want to
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achieve any type of air like most cakes
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I have some cake flour here okay we're
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gonna do two tablespoons and it's always
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prease if togedda nice fine texture and
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what the lumps this is almost a
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flourless cake it yes we use very little
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just to hold it all together you can do
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flourless but then it'll become a
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chocolate ganache mm-hmm okay chocolates
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melted mm-hmm tell you what you want to
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take the chocolate on top of yeah melt
1:39
that there and we're just cooling it so
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we can temper our eggs in with our
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chocolate so we don't make scrambled
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eggs hang and then you'll notice as it
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comes down to temperature because of
1:48
your ice bath you'll actually well it's
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starting to thicken up right now some
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Patrick
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ready yes I am they don't look like
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they're scrambling that's a good sign
2:02
beautiful sign right yeah what I'm gonna
2:05
do is get these rings ready for the
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chocolate to go into okay what we'll do
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is Apollo we're gonna spray the rings on
2:11
the sides don't be afraid okay make sure
2:13
it's okay nice so it comes out after
2:15
base is getting so thick mm-hmm perfect
2:19
it's looking great okay we're just gonna
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take a little flower at the end here yes
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and just hold it in - okay you don't
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want to whisk because that'll
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incorporate air and I'm looking too much
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height and this will make it nice and
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dense okay and what we're gonna do Paula
2:35
we're gonna bring that over here and you
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want to do the honors of being in the
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ring what did you just do something like
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this yeah so how how fol do you won't
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need a halfway up the ring just halfway
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away yeah cuz we're gonna it's gonna
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elevate a little bit and then I'll sink
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a little bit kinda like a cheesecake
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okay
2:55
I didn't make too big of an office
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perfect let me get these in the oven and
3:02
Patrick says we should bake these at 375
3:05
y'all by about 10 minutes just time
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enough to fix your guest cup coffee
3:10
that's perfect
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a little raspberry coulis it's just a
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natural puree of some beautiful red
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raspberries I'm not stirring it's a
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simple syrup you're taking just fresh
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raspberries take a full point and then
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we'll take some of that beautiful simple
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syrup that we made okay I have some
3:26
ready here that's already cooled down
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okay it's a 4 ounces so you want to do
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the honors
3:31
yes and we're gonna put the whole thing
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in and put I would say 3/4 of that okay
3:36
yep perfect we're just gonna puree it a
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little bit
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and if you want to go ahead and just
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force that through a little bit without
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the seeds and I'll check the cake she
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does Patrick this sauce is gonna be
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fabulous with your chocolate molten love
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cake I'll make the plates up three of us
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today correct I will take a little bit
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of that creme Anglais hardly well it's
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the chocolate molten love cake so I
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figured you know I might as well make
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one for my love of my life I'm great
4:15
well come on in there Ginny and pull up
4:17
a seat now is that what they're supposed
4:21
to look like a shiny sinner like they're
4:24
not oh oh yeah it was getting hot you're
4:28
still cooking a little bit cuz the rings
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are metal on the sheet pans a little
4:32
warm by the time we played it it'll be
4:34
perfect all right you have squirted the
4:37
butterscotch on there mm-hmm
4:39
a little creme anglaise and I don't know
4:42
who you're kidding with that little dot
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so does he make this for your lot Ginny
4:47
absolutely that's why I married Emily it
4:52
was the love killing aleph game and what
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is this this is a little pistachio tuile
4:57
that we can make up the restaurant I put
5:00
a little of this raspberry coulis that
5:01
we just made that'll go well with the
5:03
chocolate the smell is heavenly young
5:07
the chocolate smell is out of this world
5:15
I love the simplicity of this recipe for
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a cup of blueberries couple raspberries
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now I'm helping myself oh that's great
5:23
I'm gonna take a seat over here let's
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dig in occur baby I love this how does
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it taste
5:33
yeah this is incredible
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hmm rattle all right maybe I still owe
5:45
you when you still love me all right
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the love cake is still in I can see why
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you love this man it's true
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