Chocolate Shortbread Cake

Name: Chocolate Shortbread Cake
Total time: 4 h
Yield: Makes 12 servings (2 per cake)
Ingredients: 15 ounces milk chocolate morsels (about 2 1/2 cups); ¾ cup butter; 3 tablespoons honey; ⅓ cup heavy cream; 1 tablespoon bourbon; 2 cups coarsely chopped butter cookies; Parchment paper; Easy Ganache

4 Ratings
3 Reviews

This dessert, prepped in just 30 minutes, is all about the crisp cookies and luscious chocolate.

By Yewande Komolafe

Recipe by Southern Living February 2014

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Credit: Iain Bagwell; Styling: Buffy Hargett Miller

Recipe Summary

hands-on:

30 mins

total:

4 hrs

Yield:

Makes 12 servings (2 per cake)

Ingredients

15 ounces milk chocolate morsels (about 2 1/2 cups)
¾ cup butter
3 tablespoons honey
⅓ cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon bourbon
2 cups coarsely chopped butter cookies
Parchment paper
Easy Ganache

Directions

Step 1
Line each compartment of a 6-mold mini cheesecake pan (or jumbo-size muffin pan) with plastic wrap.

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Step 2
Pour water to depth of 1 inch into bottom of a double boiler over medium heat; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer; place chocolate and next 2 ingredients in top of double boiler over simmering water. Cook, stirring occasionally, 5 to 6 minutes or until chocolate is melted. Whisk in cream and bourbon.
Step 3
Remove from heat. Gently stir cookies into chocolate mixture, and pour into prepared pan (about 3/4 cup in each mold). Chill 2 to 24 hours or until set.
Step 4
Remove cakes from pan to a wire rack in a parchment paper-lined jelly-roll pan; discard plastic wrap. Slowly pour warm Easy Ganache over cakes, spreading to edges and on sides. Chill 1 hour before serving.
Step 5
Note: We tested with LU Le Petit Beurre cookies. Store any leftover ganache in the refrigerator. Reheat in the microwave; drizzle over ice cream or your favorite pound cake.

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Shawna

02/15/2017

I have made this a couple times. At least once each with Keebler's Simply line of butter cookies, and with homemade butter cookies. I don't feel the cookies stand out much, so I'd used whatever's quick/cheap.

It is very rich, so I've decided my go-to pan/shape for this dessert is a mini muffin pan. I used paper muffin liners, and it was a bit of a pain to unwrap them, but really a more appropriate size. You will still have plenty of ganache to cover the extra surface area.

The chocolate, honey and bourbon are a great combination in this recipe, altering the flavor profile a bit from your everyday chocolate desserts. It is definitely does not have a traditional cake texture or lightness, but I wouldn't just call it melted chocolate either.

Cathyoost

04/10/2014

The word cake in the title is VERY misleading. It is melted chocolate, period. Good melted chocolate but not worth the expense or calories. There are much better chocolate desserts.

tacrvt15

02/17/2014

Very large serving for the richness of the dessert. Used dark chocolate morsels. Would mold in mini cupcake pan for a bite sized serving. Served with vanilla frozen yogurt with a drizzel of sauce.

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