Chocolate and Coffee Cake

Leila Kadri
Leila Kadri @cook_3647063
Lebanon
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Ingredients

45 mins
10 servings
  1. For the cake:
  2. 2 cupsall-purpose flour
  3. 2 cupssugar
  4. 1 cupvegetable oil
  5. 1 cupwarm brewed coffee
  6. 3/4 cupmilk
  7. 2eggs, at room temperature
  8. 1 teaspoonbaking powder
  9. 2 teaspoonsbaking soda
  10. 2/3 cupunsweetened cocoa powder
  11. 1/4 teaspoonsalt
  12. 1/2 teaspoonvanilla extract
  13. For the ganache:
  14. 200 g (7 oz.)semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
  15. 1 cupheavy cream
  16. 1 tablespoonsugar
  17. 1 teaspoonbutter

Cooking Instructions

45 mins
  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.

  2. 2

    Coat a round cake tin with the butter and dust with some flour.

  3. 3

    Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Add the sugar and combine all.

  4. 4

    To another bowl, add the oil, eggs, vanilla extract, brewed coffee and milk. Beat with an electric mixer for 1 minute.

  5. 5

    Pour the wet ingredients over the dry ingredients. Now mix gently with a wooden spoon just to homogenize the mixture.

  6. 6

    Pour the batter into the cake tin evenly.

  7. 7

    Bake for 40-45 minutes, or until you insert a skewer in the center of the cake and it comes out clean.

  8. 8

    Remove from the oven and set aside to cool down.

  9. 9

    Prepare the chocolate ganache:

  10. 10

    Pour the chocolate in a heat-proof bowl.

  11. 11

    In a small heavy saucepan, heat the cream and bring just to a boil.

  12. 12

    Directly pour over the chopped chocolate.Stir in the sugar and butter. Set aside.

  13. 13

    Allow the ganache to slightly cool down. Invert the cake onto a large dish. Drizzle the chocolate ganache on top.

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jane.eh
jane.eh @janeeh
how many cups are the 200g of chocolate?

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