Chocolate Shadow Cake

Name: Chocolate Shadow Cake
Yield: Makes 12 pieces
Ingredients: 4 large, egg whites; 3 tablespoons, water; 1 1/4 cups (8¾ ounces/248 grams), sugar; 1 teaspoon, cream of tartar; Pinch, salt; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 3 (8-inch), baked chocolate cake rounds; 4 ounces (113 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 tablespoons, light corn syrup

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate
Cakes
Great American Cakes

Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2008

Its name invokes the spirit of Halloween, but what could be scary about a rich chocolate butter cake layered with fluffy seven-minute icing and topped with a drippy chocolate glaze?

SERVES Makes 12 pieces

TIME 1 hour

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