Commander's Chocolate Souffle Cakes W/ Chocolate Sauce

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 1 cup finely chopped good-quality chocolate (about 4 1/2 ounces)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons clear rum
• 9 ounces bittersweet chocolate or 9 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup cake flour, sifted

Recipe

• 1 --sauce--.
• 2 bring cream to simmer in small saucepan.
• 3 remove from heat.
• 4 add chocolate and whisk until melted.
• 5 stir in rum.
• 6 chill until just cool, whisking occasionally, about 30 minutes.
• 7 --cakes--.
• 8 preheat oven to 400ºf.
• 9 butter six 3/4-cup soufflé dishes.
• 10 stir chocolate in top of double boiler over simmering water until melted.
• 11 cool 10 minutes.
• 12 mix sugar and eggs in processor until well blended.
• 13 blend in butter.
• 14 add flour; process until smooth.
• 15 blend in chocolate.
• 16 divide batter among prepared dishes.
• 17 place on baking sheet.
• 18 bake until cakes are puffed, tops look crusty and tester inserted into center comes out with wet batter still attached, about 18 minutes.
• 19 run knife around sides of cakes.
• 20 invert onto spatula; gently slide onto plates.
• 21 spoon sauce around cakes.