Happy Birthday my dear better half….

Posted On November 25, 2012

We Celebrated Kesav’s Birthday this week. Every year looking forward for this wonderful day to surprise him and make something special…This time I made this super yummy and moist Chocolate cake with Chocolate Ganache icing.

Here go the ingredients and Method…

Ingredients:

for the cake…

1. Choco powder – 1&1/4 cup
2. All-purpose flour – 3 cups
3. Sugar – 1 & 3/4 cup
4. Egg – 2
5. oil – 1 cup
6. Buttermilk – 1 cup
7. Coffee – 1 cup
8. Baking Soda – 1&1/2 tsp
9. Baking Powder – 1& 1/2 tsp
10. Vanilla essence – few drops
11. salt – 1tsp

for Ganache icing-

1. Chocolate – 300gms
2. Whipping cream – 300ml
3. Butter -2 tbs (optional)

Method:

1. For the cake, Mix all the dry ingredients and sift it in a large bowl.

2. Mix all the wet ingredients using a whisk.

3. Combine the dry and wet ingredients together and bake it in a preheated oven for 35min at 160C.

4. Once it is done allow the cake to cool down.

5. For Ganache Icing, Boil the cream in medium heat for 5-10mins, before it starts bubbling up…and switch the heat off.

6. Scrap the chocolate into tiny pieces and put it directly in hot cream.

7. Allow this mixture to rest for a while and mix it all together.

8. Let this mixture sit in the kitchen top overnight or until it becomes to spreadable consistency.

9. Decorate the cake with the icing. I used some Buttercream icing as well for the decoration…

The Ganache icing is easy to handle for decorations and yummy too…Enjoy making it in your kitchen! 

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