Description
A slice of this Chocolate Cake with Ganache, and all your worries melt away.
Ingredients
Scale
Cake batter
- 2 cups Flour
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 3/4 cup Cocoa
- 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- A dash of Salt
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1 1/4 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Oil
- 1 cup hot water
- 2 eggs
Icing
- 2 cups of Icing Sugar
- 1/4 cup of cocoa
- 150 g butter
- 1/4 cup of cream
or Ganache topping
- 1/2 cup fresh cream
- 2 slabs of plain Milk Chocolate
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F degrees
- In a large bowl, sift flour, baking powder, cocoa powder
- Add the remaining dry ingredients and mix
- Add eggs, vanilla, oil, and milk and mix with an electric beater for 1 minute
- Add the water, and mix well
- Pour the batter into 2 greased baking tins
- Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in a preheated oven
Icing
- Mix well together with an electric beater
Ganache topping
- Heat cream until it reaches a simmer, do not boil
- Pour over the broken plain chocolate
- Mix well until it is blended
- Once it’s cooled, gently pour it over the cold cake.
Notes
Created, Prepared, tried, and tested by Jennifer from The Recipe Hunter: Tried and Tested Recipes from Home Chefs
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 376
- Sugar: 30.8 g
- Sodium: 103.9 mg
- Fat: 17.8 g
- Saturated Fat: 6.3 g
- Trans Fat: 0.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 51.6 g
- Fiber: 2.8 g
- Protein: 6.3 g
- Cholesterol: 40.9 mg