Luck Be a Lady Recipe

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Directions:

  1. Mocha Ganache:
  2. Milk Chocolate Ice Cream
  3. Chocolate Sheet Cake:
  4. (This is a creaming method recipe)
  5. Preheat your oven at 325 degrees F. Grease a 1/2 sheet pan with cooking spray then a piece of parchment paper.
  6. Cream butter, sugar and cocoa powder. Slowly add your eggs, scraping down the sides in between. Combine the dry ingredients. Alternately add the dry ingredients with the warm water. Scrape down the side to make sure there are no lumps. Pour the whole batter into the pan and place in the oven. Turn cake after the first 5 minutes then bake another 5 minutes. When the cake is ready it will separate from the sides and bounce back when touched.
  7. Mocha Ganache for glazing:
  8. In a saucepan combine cream, glucose, instant espresso, vanilla extract and salt and bring to a simmer.
  9. Chop the chocolate and set aside in a bowl. Strain the hot cream mixture. Temper the hot liquid over the chopped chocolate and stir until the mixture is combined and shiny. Add in the butter, and continue stirring. Set in the refrigerator.
  10. Milk Chocolate Irish Cream Ice Cream:
  11. Combine milk, cream, vanilla extract, liquid glucose, and 1/2 the amount of sugar into a pot and bring up to a simmer. Temper the hot liquid into the chopped chocolate continue stirring until completely melted. Stir the melted chocolate into the pot. Bring the hot cream back up to a simmer. Combine the yolks and the remaining 1/2 amount of sugar in a bowl and whisk till well combined. Temper you egg mixture into the hot liquid cook until it coats the back of the spoon. Strain through a chinois. Mix in the Irish cream liqueur, and a pinch of salt. Put into a water bath to chill.
  12. When the base is cold pour into the ice cream machine and spin.
  13. Whipped Cream:
  14. In the stand mixer combine all ingredients. Using the whip attachment on a high setting and whip the cream until it forms a stiff peak.
  15. Chocolate Ribbon:
  16. Melt chocolate over a double boiler, stirring.
  17. Espresso Soak:
  18. Bring sugar and water up to a boil on medium heat. Add espresso and strain through a chinois.
  19. Assembly:
  20. In round cake mold, layer chocolate sheet cake and glaze with mocha ganache, then chill. Flip glaze chocolate cake layer so that the ganache is on the bottom of the cake mold. Layer milk chocolate ice cream (that has been frozen on sheet pan and cut out to fit mold), chocolate cake, mocha ganache glaze then ice cream. Repeat ice cream, cake, ganache layers if desired, then chill. While chilling, cover acetate* strip with tempered chocolate and chill. Wrap chocolate strip around cake, cover top with tempered chocolate, chill. Garnish with whip cream and serve.
  21. *Acetate can be found in baking supply stores
  22. A viewer, who may not be a professional cook, provided this recipe. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe and therefore, we cannot make representation as to the results.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 21709.53 Kcal (90893 kJ)
Calories from fat 12760.04 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 1417.78g 2181%
Cholesterol 1002.4mg 334%
Sodium 899.23mg 37%
Potassium 1217.88mg 26%
Total Carbs 2572.91g 858%
Sugars 1951.17g 7805%
Dietary Fiber 374.54g 1498%
Protein 227.22g 454%
Vitamin C 1.8mg 3%
Vitamin A 1mg 35%
Iron 190mg 1056%
Calcium 681.3mg 68%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 1742.41 Kcal (7295 kJ)
Calories from fat 1024.13 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 113.79g 2181%
Cholesterol 80.45mg 334%
Sodium 72.17mg 37%
Potassium 97.75mg 26%
Total Carbs 206.5g 858%
Sugars 156.6g 7805%
Dietary Fiber 30.06g 1498%
Protein 18.24g 454%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 3%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 35%
Iron 15.2mg 1056%
Calcium 54.7mg 68%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 551.5
    Points
  • 635
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium,
  • high fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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