Chocolate Heaven Cake
From hooch 15 years ago
- 1 minutes to make
- Serves 10
another great cake I have come across, the Gnache totaly makes this cake devine
Ingredients
- 2 cups water shopping list
- 3 cups Dark Cane sugar shopping list
- 250g butter shopping list
- 1/3 cup baking cocoa shopping list
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda shopping list
- 3 cups self raising flour, sifted shopping list
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten shopping list
- chocolate coated macadamia nuts shopping list
- chocolate Ganache icing shopping list
- 150g dark chocolate, finely chopped shopping list
- 1/4 cup cream shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 190ºC conventional or 170ºC fan forced. Line a round 28cm cake pan base with baking paper and lightly grease sides of pan.
- Combine water, dark cane sugar, butter, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda in medium saucepan; stir over heat, without boiling, until sugar dissolves. Bring to boil, reduce heat & simmer uncovered for 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl. Cool to room temperature (this takes about 45 minutes).
- Add flour and eggs; beat until just combined. Pour into pan and bake for 1 hour or until skewer comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes then turn onto cooling rack. Spread top of cake with Chocolate Ganache Icing and decorate with crushed chocolate-coated macadamia nuts.
- Chocolate Ganache Icing- Combine chocolate and cream in a small heatproof bowl, stir with metal spoon over pan of simmering water until melted and smooth. Cool for 10 minutes and spread over cake
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
This sounds divine!
tuilelaith
in Columbia loved it
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OMG....I'd eat ganache on bacon if someone suggested it! Love this...thanks for posting!
pat2me
in Nashua loved it
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This is really heaven...Thanks again :)
ahmed1
in Cairo loved it
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