Mocha Ring
By: Anonymous
Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 12:49am

Ingredients




8 tablespoons Butter or margarine
1 cup Water
1/2 teaspoon Salt
6 teaspoons tbl Sugar, plus 1
1 cup Flour
5 Eggs
3 teaspoons Instant espresso or coffee
2 cups Heavy cream
2 tablespoons Unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Confectioner's sugar

Preparation

1 Heat oven to 400F. Grease and flour a baking sheet. Mark a 10 inch circle on sheet. 2 Cut butter in chunks. Bring butter, water, salt and 1 teaspoon of the sugar to a boil in a saucepan and boil just until butter melts. (If water boils longer, too much will evaporate, and proportions will be thrown off.) 3 Remove from heat and stir in flour all at once. Stir over low heat just until mixture is smooth and comes away from the sides of the pan in a ball. 4 Remove from heat and beat in 4 of the eggs one at a time. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto circle. 5 Dip a spoon in water and smooth the dough into a ring. 6 Beat together remaining egg and 1 tablespoon water and brush this glaze over top of ring. Bake until golden brown and crisp, about 40 to 45 minutes. Cool completely. Dissolve 2 teaspoons cofee powder in 2 teaspoons hot water. Cool. Beat cream, cocoa, sugar, vanilla and dissolved coffee until cream holds stiff peaks. Slice off top two-thirds of ring. Pull out any soft dough. Fill bottom of ring with  7 Dissolve remaining 1 teaspoon coffee in 2 1/2 tablespoons hot water and stir into confectioner's sugar until smooth. Pour this icing over top of ring and let it run down the sides. 8 Variations:Make several small rings instead of one large one. 9 Sprinkle with nuts before baking. Flavor whipped cream filling with your favorite liqueur instead of espresso. 10 Omit the coffe icing and sprinkle with powdered sugar instead.