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Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients
  

Chocolate Cake

  • 3 cups Flour
  • 2 1/2 cups Sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups Cocoa powder
  • 1 tbsp Baking powder
  • 1 tbsp Baking soda
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1 1/2 cup Milk
  • 2 tbsp Apple cider vinegar
  • 1 1/2 cup Warm water
  • 1/4 cup Vegetable oil
  • 1/4 cup Butter, melted

Vanilla Syrup

  • Water
  • Sugar
  • Vanilla Pod

Ganache Montée (frosting)

  • Chocolate
  • Whipping Cream

Instructions
 

Make the Ganache Montée

  • Make the Ganache montée. You can find my full recipe here.
  • Make a regular ganache with dark chocolate and whipping cream. Allow to cool down completely.
  • Add some cold whipping cream and whip until light and fluffy.
  • Refrigerate until you are ready to frost you cake (few hours).

Bake the chocolate cake

  • Preheat the oven at 350F (180C).
  • In a small bowl mix the milk and apple cider vinegar. Set aside for a few minutes.
  • In a large bowl (or the bowl of you stand mixer), stir the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
  • Add the eggs, milk and apple cider vinegar, oil, melted butter.
  • Stir until well incorporated.
  • Poor 3 cups of batter into a 3 silicone cake pan or a buttered regular cake pans.
  • Bake for 35 minutes. Until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • Let your cake cool down completely on a grid.
  • Cut the top of the cakes to make them flat.

Decorate the cake

  • Place the first cake on a decorating turn table.
  • Brush some vanilla syrup on it.
  • Scoop some ganache montée on the cake an spread all around.
  • Repeat with the two other cakes.
  • Using a spatula, spread the rest of the chocolate frosting on top and all around.
  • Scrap the ganache montée around the cake to allow some actual cake to show a little.
  • Using a piping bag, make little rosette of ganache on top of the cake.
  • And voila! The best chocolate cake ever is ready!