Maida Heatter's Chocolate Cookies With Gin-Soaked Raisins Recipe
- Ingredients: 33
- Serves: 12
- Bake: 10 hr (includes soaking raisins)
Maida heatter's chocolate cookies with gin-soaked raisins with golden raisins, gin, sifted confectioners sugar, sifted unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably dutch-process, instant espresso powder, all-purpose flour, salt, large egg whites, vanilla, oz pecans , toasted, cooled, and coarsely chopped. To make this maida heatter's chocolate cookies with gin-soaked raisins for 12 persons you will need 10 hr (includes soaking raisins) for baking.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup golden raisins
- 1/3 cup gin
- 3 cups sifted confectioners sugar
- 2/3 cup sifted unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably Dutch-process
- 1 tsp. instant espresso powder
- 2 tbsps. all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 3 large egg whites
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 8 oz pecans , toasted, cooled, and coarsely chopped
Cake:
- 8 oz. bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 5 large eggs
- 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
Mousse:
- 2 cups fresh raspberries
- 2 tablespoons red currant jelly melted with 1 tbsp. water
- Red currant bunches
For cream topping
- Special equipment: 3 baking pans and a 3 1/2-quart straight-sided glass trifle or soufflé dish
For assembly
Filling and frosting cakes
- 2 11-inch-diameter tart-pan bottoms or cardboard rounds
- 1 8-inch-diameter tart-pan bottom or cardboard round
- 1 5-inch-diameter tart-pan bottom or cardboard round
- 14 12-inch-long, 1/4-inch-diameter wooden dowels
Decoration
- Mix of large and tiny white roses and fresias
Berry compote
- 8 1-pint containers fresh strawberries, hulled, halved
- 2 1/2-pint containers fresh blackberries
- 2 1/2-pint containers fresh raspberries
- 2 1/2-pint containers fresh blueberries
- 1 cup sugar
Directions
- Step 1 Mix confectioners sugar, cocoa, espresso powder, flour, and salt with an electric mixer at low speed.
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- Step 2 Drain raisins in a sieve, without pressing, then add raisins to dough with pecans. Stir until thoroughly mixed.
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- Step 3 Working quickly, drop 1/4 cup dough for each cookie onto a baking sheet, spacing cookies at least 3 inches apart, and gently pat down each mound to about 1/2 inch thick.
- Step 4 Bake cookies, 1 sheet at a time, in middle of oven, rotating sheet halfway through baking, 15 to 17 minutes total, or until cookies appear cracked and centers are just set.
Nutrition information
Calories 303 | Carbohydrates 41 g (14%) |
Fat 14 g (22%) | Protein 4 g (8%) |
Saturated Fat 2 g (8%) | Sodium 162 mg (7%) |
Polyunsaturated Fat 4 g | Fiber 4 g (15%) |
Monounsaturated Fat 8 g | Cholesterol 0 |