I used to be kindly gifted some scrumptious Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal 69% chocolate from Firetree Chocolate and I knew merely what I needed to bake with it. This raspberry ganache chocolate cake is wealthy, indulgent and undoubtedly one for the adults. This usually is an excellent celebration cake or one issue to serve with espresso if in case you can have buddies popping by.
The chocolate has the mannequin of citrus and purple fruit and the darkish cocoa undertones pair totally with the raspberry puree all through the ganache. It’s tart with merely the correct quantity of sweetness. There’s chocolate all through the cake and all through the ganache which makes this so decadent and though this usually is a small 6 inch cake, only a bit goes a good distance and you’ll serve in any case 8 – 10 folks with a towering slice.
This raspberry ganache cake may be very straightforward to make as you may see from the recipe and the extra rustic the ornament, the higher it seems. Merely take a palette knife and slather the raspberry ganache all through the cake. You’ll uncover you have got gotten some ganache leftover which you’ll roll into truffles and roll in cocoa powder to coat them.
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Raspberry Ganache Cake
Chocolate Cake
- 250 g Unsalted butter softened
- 350 g Comfortable Brown Sugar
- 6 Medium Eggs overwhelmed
- 200 g 69% Firetree Solomon Islands Guadalcanal Chocolate melted and cooled barely
- 140 g Plain Flour
Raspberry Ganache
- 250 g Raspberry Puree
- 250 g 69% Firetree Solomon Islands Guadalcanal Chocolate
- 60 g Unsalted butter softened
Preheat the oven to 150C Fan and grease and line the underside of two x 6inch spherical deep cake tins.
Cream the butter and sugar collectively till mild and fluffy. Add the overwhelmed eggs to the combination in a sluggish widespread stream with the mixer on medium velocity. Add the chocolate and blend till utterly blended.
Fold all through the flour with a spatula till utterly blended. Spoon the combination into the ready tins and diploma the surfaces. Bake for 45 minutes till risen with a crust that wobbles when gently shaken. You could’t take a look at this cake with skewer, if it comes out clear the cake is overcooked.
Change the cake to a wire rack and depart to sit down again for quarter-hour. Cowl the bottom with baking parchment and place all through the fridge to sit back out before dealing with.
Make the ganache, put the raspberry puree correct proper right into a saucepan and convey to a boil. Place the chocolate in a bowl and pour over the boiled raspberry puree and stir till all the chocolate is melted.
Slowly add the butter in small objects and stir till melted into the ganache. Keep along with till all the butter is used. The ganache might presumably be made as lots as 2 days upfront.
When the muffins are chilly trim every of them with a serated knife or a cake leveller to verify they’re completely flat and even. Place one cake on a plate or a board and unfold a beneficiant quantity of ganache on the cake.
Place the opposite cake on extreme and unfold the easiest with ganache, you’ll uncover that you’ve additional ganache than you want, you may roll what’s left into balls and eat as truffles, or use them to brighten the cake.
Thanks for locating out.
Angela
I used to be gifted a bag of Firetree 69% Solomon Islands Guadalcanal chocolate to make this recipe with. All opinions are my very private and I used to be not paid for the submit.