🎉We're celebrating World Chocolate Day with a heavenly chocolate cake featuring coconut ganache and a creamy white chocolate cream cheese filling 🎂
🍽️Serves 8
🥣45 minutes prep time
⏱️55 minutes cooking time
📌INGREDIENTS
400 g butter
500 g light brown sugar
4 free-range eggs
2 t vanilla extract
300 g dark chocolate
320 g cake flour
70 g cocoa
2 t bicarbonate of soda
2 cups warm coffee (of your choice)
Chocolate or chuckles of choice, to decorate (optional)
📍For the coconut ganache:
1 x 400 ml coconut milk can
1 kg dark chocolate roughly chopped or cocoa chocolate drops
📍For the white chocolate cream-cheese filling:
60 g white chocolate
1 cup cream cheese, at room temperature
1 vanilla pod, seeded.
📌COOKING INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Cream the butter and sugar until pale and creamy. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well.
2. Melt the chocolate in a double-boiler and cool slightly, then fold into the mixture.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda, then carefully fold into the batter. Add the coffee a little at a time while adding the flour.
Once all the flour has been incorporated, pour the batter into 4 x 20 cm greased springform baking tins.
4. Bake for 40 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 160°C and bake for a further 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out with large crumbs attached. Allow to cool before removing from the tins.
5. To make the coconut ganache, heat the coconut milk in a saucepan over a medium heat until it reaches a gentle simmer. 6. Add the chopped chocolate and allow to rest for 1 minute, then stir until all the chocolate has melted and the ganache is smooth.
7. To make the white chocolate cream-cheese filling, melt the white chocolate in a double-boiler and mix with the cream cheese. Add the vanilla seeds and beat using an electric hand-mixer until combined and thick enough to spread.
What are you indulging in today? 🍫
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