Chocolate Cake With Ganache
From sjbenoist 13 years agoIngredients
- For Cake: shopping list
- 1 Stick Unsalted Butter, soft shopping list
- 2 1/4 Cups Light Brown Sugar shopping list
- 3 Eggs shopping list
- 1 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract shopping list
- 3 Ounces Unsweetened Chocolate, melted shopping list
- 2 Teaspoons Baking Soda shopping list
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt shopping list
- 2 1/4 Cups Cake Flour, sifted shopping list
- 1 Cup Sour Cream shopping list
- 1 Cup Boiling Water shopping list
- For Ganache: shopping list
- 8 Ounces Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips shopping list
- 3/4 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream shopping list
How to make it
- Grease and Flour two 9" layer pans while preheating oven to 350 degrees.
- In a LARGE bowl, cream the butter until smooth.
- Add brown sugar and eggs, and beat with mixer until well blended.
- Put water on the stove to boil (do not add yet).
- Add vanilla and melted chocolate, mix.
- Add baking soda and salt, mix.
- Add 1/2 Cup cake flour and mix until smooth.
- Add 1/4 Cup sour cream and mix until smooth.
- Repeat until both ingredients have been added and mixed completely.
- Add boiling water, and stir with a SPOON until blended.
- Pour into layer pans and bake 30 minutes or until done.
- For Ganache:
- Pour chocolate into a mixing bowl.
- Heat whipping cream slowly, stirring CONSTANTLY until it begins to boil.
- Pour cream over chocolate and stir immediately until smooth.
- Apply a light coat to cooled cake and refrigerate 15 minutes.
- Apply remainder of ganache to cake as icing.
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