February’s Daring Bakers challenge is a Flourless Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Valentino. “The February 2009 challenge is hosted by Wendy of WMPE‘s blog and Dharm of Dad ~ Baker & Chef. We have chosen a Chocolate Valentino cake by Chef Wan; a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Dharm and a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Wendy as the challenge.”
Many Daring Bakers made this for a special Valentine’s dessert, but since I already had dessert plans for Valentines, I decided to make a Slumdog Millionaire dessert and served it on Oscar night. I thought the movie definitely deserved to win!
This was a fun challenge, but I probably wouldn’t make this cake again. It was too rich for my family. I also had a bit of a problem with it. The recipe says to cook it for 25 minutes or until it has an internal temperature of 140º, but my cake reached 144º at 18 minutes so I took it out of the oven, but the center was gooey when I served it.
My husband and son loved Dharm’s Ice Cream (frozen custard) Recipe. It stayed smooth and creamy the next day, unlike other homemade ice creams I’ve made in the past.
As usual, the Daring Bakers made some beautiful, amazingly creative desserts. Stop by the Daring Bakers’ blogroll to checkout the other posts.
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Rich or not it sure does look beautiful!
Wow, this looks great! Is that chocolate covered strawberries in the picture?
Beautiful cake Barbara and love hte presentation! Great idea to do it for an Oscars night and I agree Slumdog Millionaire definitely deserved to win :)
I’d love this dessert, it looks so good!
Oh, how I wish I weren’t so chocolate sensitive. When I see a dessert like this, I so want to make it and eat it. But I would be a crazy person, hyped up all day and sleepless at night. Your photos is great.
A perfect dessert for the oscars! Great presentation! Love the strawberrys. :)
I’ll admit that I love a bit of goo with my flourless chocolate cake–I know, I know, that makes it more of a molten chocolate cake, but still…so, that being said, your cake looks absolutely divine to me! And the pairing of ice cream with it only makes it sound that much better. YUM!
You did a fantastic job on that! The strawberries are beautiful
Gorgeous! Love the chocolate covered strawberries.
What a gorgeous presentation!! It looks so scrumptious!!
Great photo, beautiful job, rich or not. Bravo to you and all of those Oscar winners!
Awesome cake barbara. It was a bit rich but not necessarily a bad thing if you ask me :)
Wonderful presentation! Great job on the challenge.
It looks decadent Barbara. So beautiful. Id like to try it, rich or not.. MMMMMM
Barbara-your picture and presentation is stunning! Great job!! You make me hunger for chocolate covered strawberries, mmmm, just a few more months and they’ll finally be back in season.
Okay, your decorating the cake is superb!!! Even without the decorated strawberries, it looks beautiful. Well done.
Looks yummy. Umm, I like rich, dark chocolate! :) Great photo!
Chocolate strawberries is a great idea. I like the Slumdog theme too!
That looks fabulous! Oh yum!
Nice job on this challenge. I am craving lots of chocolate now!
Gorgeous, Barbara! Looks so rich! Strawberries always makes everything prettier!
It looks rich, decadent and addictive! And I love those strwberies too!
That cake looks deliciously moist and tasty. The strawberries compliment it really well too!
Show me more of your recipes please! This is awesome!
woah! chocolate cake plus ice cream, what a treat!