Recipe: Special Birthday Chocolate Cake!
If, like us, your back-to-school season has started at full speed, then you'll love this quick yet delicious birthday cake recipe!!
Last weekend, you completely forgot Mini-you's birthday and absolutely needed a show-stopping cake to impress their friends.
No worries, this chocolate cake has everything to please:
- The taste (You can never go wrong with chocolate!)
- The simplicity
It can be made with what you have in the cupboards.
As for the ingredients, we will need:
For the cake:
- 200 gr dark chocolate
- 4 eggs
- 150 gr sugar
- 100 gr flour
- 115 gr butter
- 1 packet of baking powder
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
For the whipped ganache coating:
- 675 gr liquid cream at 30%
- 235 gr dark chocolate
For the decorations (optional):
- Smarties
- Rainbow sprinkles
- Chocolate chips
Recipe steps:
1) In a bowl, melt the chocolate and butter in a bain-marie, then let cool.
2) In a mixing bowl, beat the eggs, sugar, and vanilla sugar, then add the melted chocolate to the mixture. Whisk everything together.
3) Add the flour and baking powder. Mix until you get a smooth batter.
4) Pour the batter into your pre-greased mould. Bake for 50 minutes at 180°C.
5) Unmould your chocolate cake and let it cool.
Preparing the whipped ganache:
1) Start by placing 237g of full liquid cream in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
2) In a mixing bowl, place the dark chocolate and pour half of the hot full liquid cream over it.
3) Emulsify everything with a spatula to obtain a smooth and shiny mixture.
4) Add the rest of the hot full liquid cream, then emulsify again.
5) Incorporate the 437g of cold full liquid cream, mix the ganache.
6) Cover the preparation with cling film in contact and place it in the fridge for at least 4 hours or 30 minutes in the freezer for those in a hurry.
7) Take the chocolate ganache out of the refrigerator and beat it with a stand mixer or a simple electric mixer at medium speed. As soon as the mixture becomes thick and lighter, stop whisking.
8) Pipe your ganache using a piping bag around the cooled chocolate sponge, then smooth it with a spatula. All that's left is to decorate the top of the chocolate birthday cake with the remaining ganache, rainbow sprinkles, Smarties…
Happy Birthday