It's a marathon! After completing the birthday cake, I decided to bake a Devil's Food for our own consumption. I've been pestered by my sister, my mom and also, my boyfriend.
So here's the devil..
Devil's Food Cake
165 g (1 cup) cake flour
90 g (1/3 cup) cocoa powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
250 g (1 1/4 cup) caster sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
250 ml (1 cup) buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
125 g (1/2 cup) softened butter
1. Mix the butter, egg, milk and essence in one bowl.
2. Mix the dry ingredients; flour, cocoa, sugar and soda in another bowl.
3. Combine the two mixture and beat them up with a mixer for 5 minutes or until the mixture is fluffy and all the clumps are smoothed out.
4. Bake for an hour or until the cake is totally done at 180 C.
Chocolate Ganache
60 g (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
60 g dark chocolate
60 g white chocolate, melted
As usual, I sliced the cake into two horizontal layer. I whipped up some 4 fl oz of whip cream and simply spread the cream on top of one layer and put the other layer over.
The dark chocolate and the butter are melted together and then spread onto the cake. And before the dark choc set, I piped circles with the melted white chocolate on the cake, starting from the centre. With a skewer or a toothpick, quickly drag the skewer from the centre to the outside of the cake. Do it all around like a clock.
And then I placed two Hershey's nuggets at the centre. :)
