Better Than Sex Cake Number 1 (Death by Chocolate) Category: Desserts: Cake, cookies, mousse, puddings, etc.. Posted by: Jane (UseNet) Quantity: ?? Ingredients: 1 recipe Grand Slam brownies 1 cup kahlua (or your (recipe follows) favorite liqueur) 1 recipe chocolate mousse 4 crushed Heath Bars or Skor (recipe follows, or use Bars (or brickle bits from instant pudding) the baking aisle) 1 cup chopped nuts 1 cup mini chocolate chips 1 pint heavy cream, whipped Instructions: Prepare the brownies. Let them cool, and then pierce with a fork and drizzle with liqueur. Refrigerate several hours or overnight. Prepare the mousse or pudding. Break the brownies up into 1-2" chunks. Using a trifle bowl or some other medium sized glass bowl, layer half of the brownies, half of the mousse, half of the whipped cream, half of the nuts, half of the toffee bars and half of the chocolate chips. Repeat the layering with the rest of the ingredients. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Better Than Sex Cake Number 1: Grand Slam Brownies Ingredients: 8 oz unsweetened chocolate, 1 1/2 sticks unsalted chopped butter, cut into pieces 1 c. sifted all-purpose 1/4 t baking powder flour 1/2 t salt 1 t instant coffee powder 4 t water 4 extra large eggs, at room temperature 3 c. sugar Instructions: Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325. Butter sides and bottoms of 2 9 by 9 pans. Flour pans, tapping out excess. Melt unsweetened chocolate and butter in heavy small saucepan over very low heat, stirring until smooth. Cool to room temperature. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into small bowl. Place coffee powder in large bowl. Add water and stir to dissolve. Add eggs and sugar. Using electric mixer, beat until the mixture is pale yellow and a slowly dissolving ribbon forms when beaters are lifted. Fold in melted chocolate, then dry ingredients. Spread batter in prepared pans. Bake until top is dry and cracked and toothpick inserted in center comes out with some wet batter still attached, about 38 minutes. Better Than Sex Cake Number 1: Chocolate Mousse Ingredients: 3/4 lb. bittersweet 3 large eggs, at room chocolate, chopped temperature 2 c. well chilled heavy cream Instructions: In the top of a double boiler or a metal bowl set over barely simmering water melt the chocolates together, stirring occasionally. In a chilled large bowl with an electric mixer beat the cream until it just holds stiff peaks. Whisk the egg yolks all at once into the warm chocolate. Whisk in half the whipped cream, and fold the mixture into the remaining whipped cream gently but thoroughly. Chill until ready to serve or use. Comments: (Note : This goes *REALLY* well with strawberries)