Homemade Ho-Hos

Name: Homemade Ho-Hos
Prep time: 3 h 25 min
Cook time: 3 h 25 min
Total time: 3 h 25 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons baking powder; 177 milliliters brown sugar; 237 milliliters butter; 59 milliliters clarified butter, warm; 57 grams cocoa butter or 1/4 cup vegetable oil; 710 milliliters confectioners sugar; 6 Tbsps Dutch-processed cocoa powder; 5 eggs; 177 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 Tbsp heavy cream; 340 grams semisweet chocolate, chopped; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 yolks

Homemade Ho-Hos might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe makes 12 servings with 589 calories, 7g of protein, and 34g of fat each. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Only From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 3 hours and 25 minutes. Head to the store and pick up yolks, vanillan extract, butter, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Special equipment: 2 half sheet pans with sides

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

To make the Cake: Butter the jelly roll pan and line it with parchment paper; then butter the paper to assure release.

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Butter

Jelly

Roll

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Baking Paper

Frying Pan

Bring a saucepan of water to a simmer.

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Water

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Sauce Pan

In the bowl from a standing mixer, combine the eggs, yolks, sugar, vanilla in a bowl and whisk briefly. Set the bowl over the simmering water and stir until warm and the sugar looks dissolved. Attach the bowl to the standing mixer fitted with a whisk, and whip until light and fluffy, about 6 minutes.

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Vanilla

Sugar

Water

Egg Yolk

Egg

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Blender

Whisk

Bowl

Meanwhile, sift together the flour, cocoa, and baking powder 3 times.

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Baking Powder

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Remove the bowl from the mixer and, while folding the egg mixture, sift in the flour mixture, little by little, until incorporated.

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All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Blender

Bowl

Drizzle in the clarified butter, while folding the batter.

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Clarified Butter

Immediately pour the batter into the prepared pans dividing equally and smooth the tops with a spatula.

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Spatula

Bake until lightly browned and it starts to pull away from the edges of the pan, about 14 to 16 minutes.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Remove the cakes from the oven and let sit in the pan for 1 minute. Run a knife along the edge to release the cake then flip it out onto parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Knife

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Frying Pan

Brush the paper (the one you lined the pan with) with water and let soak for 2 minutes. Peel it off the cake. Trim dry edges from the cake.

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Water

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Frying Pan

Let cool covered with plastic wrap.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

To make the Filling: In the bowl of a standing mixer, combine the sugar and butter and mix on low speed until well blended; then increase speed to medium and beat for another 3 minutes.

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Butter

Sugar

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Bowl

Add vanilla and cream and continue to beat on medium speed for 1 minute more, adding more cream for spreading consistency, if needed.

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Vanilla

Cream

Spread the sponge cakes with a thin layer of the filling, leaving a 1/4-inch space at the far edge.

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Spread

Roll the cake tightly on the long side until you have rolled a 1 1/2-inch thick log.

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Roll

Cut the log off from the remaining sheet of cake and place seam side-down. Repeat with remaining cake. Chill the logs for 30 minutes; then cut into 2 1/2-inch sections.

To make the Glaze: Melt the 2 ingredients together in the top of a double boiler or a bowl set over barely simmering water, stirring occasionally. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat. One at a time, gently drop the cake rolls into the hot chocolate. Lift out with a fork and let excess chocolate drip back into the bowl.

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Hot Chocolate