Dec 03, 2024

Eunice Power's whiskey-soaked chocolate and sultana cakes: Today

Ingredients

  • 75g Sultanas soaked in 30mls of whiskey- preferably overnight
  • 125g Butter
  • 200g Dark Chocolate drops
  • 250g Caster sugar
  • 4 eggs beaten
  • 1 ½ tablespoon of flour – about 12g of flour

For the ganache

  • 125ml Cream
  • 125 dark chocolate drops

Method

  1. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper muffin cups.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180C
  3. Melt the butter and chocolate together in a saucepan over a low heat. Stir in the sugar and sultanas, beat in the eggs then sift over and fold in the flour.
  4. Bake until the cakes are risen but still a little soft in the centre – about 15-20 minutes.
  5. Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cook for 15 minutes or so before turning out.
  6. To make the ganache heat the cream in a saucepan until just below simmering, remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate until melted, leave to cool until slightly thickened, about 30 minutes.
  7. Spoon a pool of chocolate ganache into the sunken centre of the little cakes, drizzle the rest of the ganache around the cakes and dust with icing sugar.