Prepared this tasty and delicious
cake for my hubby birthday…J. Struggled
lot to get it done after my busy working hours. Fulfilled another dream of
preparing delicious birthday cake, it tasted delicious even my husband liked it
(Happy to see smile on his face, on his DAY..) . I wanted to have post in my
blog of the cake on same day, spent almost 3 hours to post this recipe with
correct measurements (awake till 2 am). Enjoy this post as I am enjoying the
cake…
Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 70 min
Serves for: 4 persons
Ingredients:
1 ½ Cup - All purpose flour
½ Cup - Cocoa powder
1 tsp - Cooking soda
2 tsp - Baking powder
1 tin (400ml) - Sweetened condensed
milk (I used Britania )
100 gms -Melted butter
180 ml – Water
For Sugar Syrup:
½ Cup - Sugar
¼ Cup - Water
For Filling:
3/4 Cup - Chocochips
4 tbsp - Butter
½ Cup - Heavy Whipping Cream
1 tsp – Vanilla Essence
For Ganache:
½ Cup – Semisweet chocolate
¼ Cup – Heavy whipping Cream
Direction for Preparation:
Cake Baking:
1. Sieve flour, cocoa, baking powder
and soda together into the mixing bowl.
2. Take melted butter in bowl, mix
condensed milk and water to it. Mix well using whisk.
3. Mix Flour mixture beat well until
mixed. The batter should be in pouring consistency.
4. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease the
cake tin with butter.
5. Fill the 3/4th of cake pan
and bake it for 40-50 mins at 180°C.
6. Check if cooked by inserting a
tooth pick at the middle of cake. The cake is done if the toothpick comes out
clean.
7. Allow it to cool on a wire rack
for about 15 to 20 min.
Sugar Syrup:
1. Put the sugar in a saucepan with
the water and dissolve slowly over a low heat.
2. Allow to simmer till it thickens
slightly.
3. Strain sugar syrup for impurities.
4. Cool and store in bottle. Use as
required.
For Cream Filling:
1. Melt Butter add chocochips, leave
them until the chocochips are soft.
2. Mix the chocolate mixture to
heavy whipped cream by folding (gently mixing of cream and choco)
3. Now filling is ready for Truffle.
For Ganache:
1. Pour choco chips in large bowl.
2. Heat whipped cream in pan when it
starts boiling (It takes hardly 3-4 min), remove from heat and pour on
chocochips. Allow them stand for 2 min until chocochips become soft.
3. Stir well the cream and
chocochips mixture until you get shiny silky smooth paste.
4. Add vanilla essence for flavour
and mix well.
5. Cool in refrigerator, stirring
occasionally, until ganache reaches a spreading consistency.
For assembling cake:
1. Cut down cake to layers of
required thickness.
2. Take serving plate, place your
first cake layer. Add sugar syrup to make cake moist.
3. Apply whipped chco and cream
mixture of required quantity.
4. Now place your second layer of
cake and follow same procedure until you finish the layers of cake ie cake layer
--> Sugar Syrup --> Whipped choco cream -->
5. When all the layers are done,
Pour Ganache on the top of cake let it spread naturally to get shiny look.
6. Decorate with Cherry and choco
bars.
7. Serve chilled Chocolate Truffle
Cake..
