Chocolate Fantasy | Chocolate Sponge Cake

One more long weekend thanks to festival and I got started with baking. Guests visiting was an added bonus. That meant I needed to beautify the cake so that the kids would want to eat it...

Anyway, the end product looked decent. At least to me. What do you think?

Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache

Not bad, eh? I thought so too.. Le Cordon Bleau, I am coming soon! :-)

Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup Flour

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 cup powdered sugar

3/4 cup vegetable oil

4 large eggs

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder together twice.

Beat eggs till light and frothy to about 3 times the original volume.

Add the vanilla, sugar and beat again for about 2 minutes.

Pour in the oil continuously in a stream while continuing the beating.

Fold the flour mixture gently into the wet ingredients.

Pour into the greased tin, dusted with flour.

Tap the tin couple of times so that the bubbles settle down.

Bake at 180C for about 25-30 min or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

For the ganache:
225gm dark chocolate
140ml heavy cream
Chocolate sprinkles

Method:
Chop the chocolate into small pieces
pour cream into it and melt it either on a double boiler or in the microwave
Whisk it well until it blends well.
Cool it a little. Apply it on the cake and smooth it. The ganache will thicken as it cools down completely.
Decorate the cake with sprinkles.

Notes:

1. Pour the sugar and oil into the mixture slowly and continuously.

2. Move the mixer in one direction only lest you let the air out from the batter.

3. Don't mix the flour in frantically. Gently cut and fold in circular motion.

4. Gluten will start forming if you over mix.

Happy Baking!