Chocolate Truffle Cake
Ingredients :
For cake :-
Atta – 1+1/2 cups (or
you can use maida)
Corn flour – 3 tbs
Cocoa powder – ¼ cup
Baking soda -1 tsp
Salt – ½ tsp
Water - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Vegetable oil – 1/3cup
Lemon juice – 1 tbs
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
For icing :-
Dark compound chocolate grated – 4 cups
Fresh cream – 2 cups
Unsalted butter – 1 tbs
Method
Step 1 : Baking
i) Preparation of dry ingredients
·
Remove 3 tablespoons of flour from 1+1/2 cups of
flour *
·
Add in corn flour, cocoa powder, baking powder
and salt.
·
Sift them 3 – 4 times and keep aside
ii) Preparation of wet ingredients
·
Into a bowl pour 1 cup of water
·
Add in vegetable oil, sugar, lemon juice and
vanilla essence
·
Stir well till combined
iii) Addition of dry ingredients
into wet ingredients
·
Add in the sifted flour mix into the wet mixture
slowly
·
Mix them gently so that no lumps are formed
iv) Baking
·
Pour the cake batter into a prepared cake tin (9
inch)*
·
Bake at 1800 C for 30 minutes in a preheated oven
·
Check the doneness by inserting a skewer at the
center of the cake
·
If it came out clean the cake is baked
completely
·
Keep it in the cake tin for 10 minutes
·
Then transfer into a wire rack and allow to cool
completely
Step 2 : Icing
i) Preparation of Ganache
- · Pour 2 cups of fresh cream into a sauce pan
- · Add in 1 tablespoon of butter
- · Bring just to a boil in low flame y stirring continuously
- · Switch off the flame and pour it over the grated chocolate*
- · Set aside for 2-3 minutes so that the chocolate get melted
- · Then mix gently with a wooden spoon
- · Keep it in room temperature till it get thickened (minimum 3 hours)
- · Split the cake into two layers
- · brush some sugar syrup on the first layer
- · spread the thick ganache over it
- · then place the second layer on top
- · brush sugar syrup and then spread ganache till it coated completely
- · place it in the refrigerator for 10 minutes
- · again take it out and spread the ganache all over it
- · place it in the refrigerator for 10 minutes
- · heat up the ganache in double boiler or microwave it till become thin
- · take out the cake from refrigerator
- · pour the ganache over it
- · do some decoration according to your imagination
- · lovely chocolate truffle cake is ready to serve
Notes*
- - I used atta for this cake
- - Corn flour is used to make the cake light
- - For preparing the cake tin grease it with butter or oil ;then line it with utter paper
- - Grate the chocolate finely so that it get melted nicely
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