May 13, 2015

Devil's Food Cake

I had to try it. It looked so good I really had to. So, without further ado, get you notebooks ready to write down the recipe because it tastes as delicious as it looks. 

Ingredients:
  • 300g chocolate (I used my good old 70% but you can use sweeter if you want -> the sweeter the better for smearing it on the cake; the higher the percentage of the cocoa content, the harder it's gonna spread but it's gonna be yummier)
  • 1,3 cup heavy cream
  • 2,3 cups flour
  • 0,75 cup cocoa powder
  • 2 tea spoons baking powder
  • 2 cups sugar 
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup room temperature butter
  • 0,3 cup heavy cream
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tea spoon instant coffee

1)  If you don't have chocolate chunks, make them and put them in a bowl. Take the 1,3 cup of heavy cream and bring it to a simmer. Pour it on the chocolate and watch it melt :-)=. Stir it till it is nice and smooth, then put aside and let it cool completely.
2) Put the rest of the heavy cream, water and coffee in a pan and again bring it to a simmer. Then put aside.
3) Take the butter and sugar and combine well. Then add the eggs and blend it well.
4) Then start adding the rest - one third at a time. So pour in a part of the water mix with a part of the dry ingredients and so on. 
5) Pour the batter in your cake pan and bake for about 45 minutes at 180°C.
6) When the batter is cool as well as the ganache, you can start with putting the stuff together. Cut the cake in half and put the ganache in between the layers plus some on the top or even to the sides. I decided to go with a decadent look because the Devil wouldn't take his time decorating it so I just smeared it leaving thicker and thinner layer around.

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