Perfect cake victory

 

So I have tried on various occasions to come up with a perfect chocolate sponge cake. One that can make hearts melt and mouth water.

And at last I managed to make the miracle happen.

So this is what my perfect sponge cake looked like.

I realized that right amount of fresh cream + right amount of eggs = perfect sponge cake

Now I wanted to push my luck further and decided to go with creating a ganache icing for the cake and ended up with another star on my shoulder.

End result????

When I look at my own creation, I can’t help but feel proud.

Here is the recipe for the cake and ganache:

Ganache:

• 450 ml fresh cream
• 50 ml Liquid glucose
• 250 ml dark chocolate
• Sugar to taste (only if you chocolate does not have sugar)

 

Method:

• In a deep pan, mix cream and glucose till the mixture comes to boil.
• Add sugar in the mixture and take it off the heat. 
• Pour the cream mixture on the chocolate and mix till the chocolate has melted and texture of the mixture is nice, glossy and chocolaty. (yummy)
• Put the mixture in the refrigerator to set.

 

Cake:

• 250 ml fresh cream
• 250 ml sugar (make powder of the sugar once you have measured it)
• 250 ml all purpose flour
• 5 tbsp good quality cocoa powder
• 4 eggs
• one tsp vanilla essence
• one tsp baking powder
• one pinch salt
• one pinch baking soda (soda bi-carb)

 

Method:

• Put the oven to preheat on 200 degree
• In a bowl mix cream, sugar, eggs, and vanilla essence. Whisk the mixture till sugar grains have melted.
• In another bowl mix flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Mix the dry mixture well
• Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture (cream mixture). Mix the mixture well.
• Pour the mixture in a greased cake mould and put it in the oven for close to 45 min or till well cooked.
• Set the oven to 180 degree
• Once your cake is done, take it out of the oven and keep it to cool.
• When it has cooled down, cut the cake from middle.
• apply a generous helping of Ganache.
• Place the top cover and apply another coat of Ganache.
• Make swirls on the top with the help of your finger and lick the left over ganache off your fingers

 

Tadda….. Your cake is ready 🙂

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