Chocolate Ganache Cake

Name: Chocolate Ganache Cake
Prep time: 6 h
Cook time: 6 h
Total time: 6 h
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking soda; 567 grams fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), finely chopped in a food processor; 473 milliliters packed dark brown sugar; 4 larges eggs; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 591 milliliters heavy cream; 1 teaspoon instant-espresso powder; 0 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sticks unsalted butter, softened; 118 milliliters unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-process); 1 teaspoon vanilla; 177 milliliters boiling water; 118 milliliters whole milk

Chocolate Ganache Cake might be a good recipe to expand your dessert collection. This recipe serves 16. One portion of this dish contains around 7g of protein, 41g of fat, and a total of 624 calories. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 6 hours. Head to the store and pick up salt, fine-quality bittersweet chocolate, eggs, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 3 (7- or 8-inch, 2-inch-deep) round cake pans and line bottoms with rounds of wax or parchment paper. Butter paper and dust pans with flour, knocking out excess.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Baking Paper

Oven

Whisk together water, cocoa, and espresso powder until smooth, then whisk in milk and vanilla.

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Instant Espresso

Vanilla

Cocoa Powder

Water

Milk

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Whisk

Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt.

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Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until fluffy, then add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

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Brown Sugar

Butter

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add flour mixture and cocoa mixture in batches, beginning and ending with flour and mixing at low speed until just combined.

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Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Divide batter among pans (about 2 1/3 cups per pan), smoothing tops.

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Frying Pan

Bake in middle of oven until a tester comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes for 7-inch pans or 20 to 25 minutes for 8-inch. Cool in pans on a rack 30 minutes, then invert onto racks, remove paper, and cool completely.

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Oven

Bring cream to a simmer in a 3- to 4-quart saucepan and remove from heat.

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Cream

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Sauce Pan

Whisk in chocolate until smooth.

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Chocolate

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Whisk

Transfer ganache to a bowl and chill, covered, stirring occasionally, until thickened but spreadable, about 4 hours. (If ganache becomes too thick, let stand at room temperature until slightly softened.)

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Bowl

Arrange 1 layer on a cake stand or plate and spread 2/3 cup ganache evenly over it. Top with another cake layer and 2/3 cup ganache, spreading evenly, then third cake layer. (Chill ganache if necessary to keep at a spreadable consistency.) Chill cake until ganache filling is firm, about 1 hour. Keep remaining ganache at a spreadable consistency, chilling when necessary.

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Spread

Spread a thin layer of ganache over top and sides of cake to seal in crumbs, then chill 30 minutes.

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Spread

Spread remaining ganache evenly over top and sides of cake.

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Spread

• Cake layers may be made 1 day ahead, cooled completely, then chilled, wrapped well in plastic wrap.• Ganache may be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Let stand at room temperature 2 to 3 hours to soften to a spreadable consistency.• This cake can also be made in 2 (8-inch, 2-inch-deep) round cake pans. Split layers horizontally, then use 1/2 cup ganache between layers.• Assembled cake keeps, covered and chilled, 3 days. meringue kisses with passion-fruit fool

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Passion Fruit