Italian Fruitcakes With Frangelico Chocolate Sauce Recipes

ITALIAN FRUITCAKES WITH FRANGELICO CHOCOLATE SAUCE

Steps:

• For cakes:
• Preheat oven to 300°F. Butter and flour 12 miniature Bundt molds or 12 oversize muffin cups (each about 1-cup capacity). Toss nuts, figs, chocolate and ginger in medium bowl to blend.
• Using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in large bowl until smooth and fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1/4 cup Frangelico and orange peel (mixture may look curdled). Sift both flours and salt over batter; mix in. Stir in nut and fruit mixture.
• Divide batter among molds. Bake cakes until tester inserted near center comes out clean, about 45 minutes (about 55 minutes if using muffin cups). Turn cakes out onto racks; brush with 1/4 cup liqueur. Cool cakes completely.
• Cut out twelve 10-inch cheesecloth squares. Pour 1 1/2 cups liqueur into small bowl. Dip 1 square into liqueur; squeeze out some but not all liqueur. Wrap 1 cake in liqueur-soaked cheesecloth, then in foil. Repeat dipping and wrapping with remaining cakes, adding more liqueur if needed. Chill at least 1 week and up to 2 weeks. Bring cakes to room temperature before serving.
• For sauce:
• Stir chocolate, 2/3 cup cream and liqueur in heavy medium saucepan over low heat until chocolate melts and sauce is smooth.
• Arrange 1 cake on each plate. Drizzle with sauce. Pipe or spoon whipped cream alongside, if desired, and serve.

FRANGELICO CHOCOLATE SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine cream, chocolate and sugar in a medium saucepan over low heat.
• Cook stirring with a metal spoon for 8 minutes or until the chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth.
• Stir in the frangelico and cook stirring for 2 minutes.
• Remove saucepan from heat and serve immediately.

FRANGELICO CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Sprinkle nuts over bottom of greased 10 inch tube pan or 12 cup bundt pan.
• Stir together cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, oil and Frangelico.
• Pour batter over nuts.
• Bake at 325 in oven for 1 hour.
• Cool 10 minutes in pan.
• Invert onto serving plate and prick top.
• Glaze-----------------.
• Melt butter in saucepan.
• Stir in water and sugar.
• Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat.
• Stir in rum.
• Brush glaze evenly over top and sides of cake.
• Allow cake to absorb glaze.
• Repeat until glaze is used up.