Chocolate Truffle Cake- A birthday treat...

Chocolate Truffle cake is the birthday cake which I made for my husband's birthday. We all like chocolate a lot and so I planned to make this. This cake was pending from so long and because of  my busy schedule I couldn't try it out. Birthdays are best to try new cakes and so here it is today in my blog for all my dear readers.

A chocolate layer cake is a dense and moist cake with a silky whipped ganache filling. this cake is to die for. Totally melts in your mouth. This chocolate cake is perfect for the chocolate lover in your life. It is seriously so good, nicely balanced and not super sweet. this cake is ultra chocolaty. Head on over to bake this cake.

Ingredients:

1. All Purpose Flour- 2 cups
2. Baking Soda- 1 1/2 tsp
3. Baking Powder- 1 1/2 tsp
4. salt- a pinch
5. Cocoa Powder- 3/4 Cup
6. Sugar- 2 Cups
7. Milk- 1 Cup
8. Egg- 2 nos
9. Oil- 1/2 Cup
10. Instant Coffee- 1 Cup
11. Sugar Syrup- 1/2 cup water and 4tbsp sugar.

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9" round cake pan.
2. Make instant coffee by adding 1 cup warm water and 1 tbsp of coffee. Keep this to cool.
3. In a bowl add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt along with cocoa powder. Mix well.
4. In a mixing bowl, crack the eggs and blend it well. add the wet ingredients like the oil, cooled coffee, milk and mix well till everything gets well blended.
5. Add the sugar and let it mix till dissolved. Pour this into the flour mixture little by little and fold well using a spatula.
6. When everything gets mixed well pour this in the greased baking pan and bake for about 20- 30 minutes or till a skewer poked comes out clean. Let the cake cool.

For the Whipped Chocolate Ganache:
Ingredients:

1. Chocolate Chips- 1 cup
2. Whipping cream- 1/2 Cup

Method:

1. Heat the cream on a low flame and pour this hot cream onto the chocolate chips and after 5 minutes mix well till everything gets blended.
2. Let it cool for an hour. Blend the mixture using a hand blender till the mixture doubles.

Assembling the cake:

• Take out the cake from the cake pan, Place the cake layer on a serving plate, spread with half of the filling and top with the remaining cake half. spread ganache on top and sides of the cake
• Decorate it as you like. I have used roasted almonds.