Chocolate Layer Cake

Chrisrecipes
Chrisrecipes @cook_2774806
UK

A chocolate cake whith a chocolate buttercream in between and covered in ganache

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Ingredients

2 hours
15 servings
  1. Cake
  2. 200 gramssugar
  3. 150 gramsflour
  4. 6 tbspcocoa
  5. 5eggs
  6. 1 tspbaking powder
  7. 1 tspvanilla
  8. 1 pinchsalt
  9. 400 mlwater
  10. Syrup
  11. 400 gramsunsalted butter
  12. 3 tbspcapuccino powder
  13. 200 gramssugar
  14. 1 tspvanilla
  15. Buttercream
  16. 200 gramspowdered sugar
  17. 6 tbspcocoa
  18. 1 tspvannila
  19. Ganache
  20. 300 gramsdark chocolate
  21. 300 mldoublecream

Cooking Instructions

2 hours
  1. 1

    Whip the eggs until fluffy. Add the vannila and sugar and keep on mixing until very fluffy.

  2. 2

    Mix all of the dry ingredients in a bowl.

  3. 3

    Fold the dry ingredients a 1/4 at a time.

  4. 4

    Bake the cake at the 180°C preheated oven for 30-40 minutes.

  5. 5

    Let the cake cool completely.

  6. 6

    Mix all the ingredients for the syrup.

  7. 7

    To make the buttercream take the soft butter and mix it whith the the sugar and cocoa.

  8. 8

    To make the ganache mix the hot double cream whith the chocolate and mix until smooth.

  9. 9

    Cut the cake in haft and sprinkle the bottom part with syrup, add the buttercream and top it whith the other half of the cake . Finish by sprinkling some syrup on the top part and pouring all of the ganache over.

  10. 10

    Let it chill over night and take it out of the fridge 15 minutes before serving.

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Comments

Israel Zani Olatilewa Sahuhdi
Israel Zani Olatilewa Sahuhdi @cook_3019364
So creamy and sweet. But I substituted espresso for cappuccino.

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