Best ever Birthday cake
From ahmed1 16 years agoIngredients
- Betty Crocker’s chocolate cake mix shopping list
- chocolate butter cream: shopping list
- 150g/5 ½ oz plain chocolate shopping list
- 230g/1cup butter, softened shopping list
- 400g/2 ½ cups icing sugar (you may decrease the sugar according to your taste) shopping list
- 4 tbsp milk at room temperature. shopping list
- Ganache filling: shopping list
- 150g/5 ½ oz plain chocolate, chopped shopping list
- 1/3 cup heavy cream shopping list
- 2 tbsp butter, softened shopping list
- 1/3 cup roasted hazelnuts, crushed shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 375F,Grease a 23cm cake pan and line with parchment.Make cake as directed on back of package, cool.Split into three layers and set aside.
- Chocolate butter cream:
- Melt the chocolate and let cool slightly. Beat together the butter, sugar and milk in a bowl until the mixture is pale and fluffy. Whisk in the melted chocolate.
- Chocolate ganache:
- Heat the cream in a saucepan over low heat to simmering point. Pour over the chopped chocolate. Stir until melted and smooth. Add the butter and stir until melted. Leave to cool completely until thickened, stirring occasionally.
- Assembling:
- Place the first layer on a wire rack and spread 2 tbsp of the chocolate butter cream,spread 2 tbsp of the ganache over it and then sprinkle half the crushed nuts. Cover with the second cake layer and press slightly using your hands.Repeat the same process with the second layer. Cover with the third and final cake layer and spread the rest of the butter cream on the top and sides of the
- cake. Make swirls with the back of a teaspoon on the top. Make stripes all around the sides using a fork. Pipe the rest of the ganache in thin lines over the top. Chill.
The Rating
Reviewed by 22 people-
Once again 5 congrats Ahmed!
Magalimagali777 in Mexico loved it -
How exquisite my friend...5 of course, more if I could Whose birthday or do I get to guess?
mystic_river1 in Bradenton loved it -
And I would deem it a privilege and an honor to do it for you..you are such a true friend, Ahmed!
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