These delicious chocolate and coffee cakes will delight any shokoman. After all, they contain 500 g of chocolate.
It is necessary
- For cakes:
- - 200 g butter,
- - 250 g of dark chocolate,
- - 1 tsp natural coffee (can be instant)
- - 200 g brown sugar
- - 4 eggs,
- - 200 g of white sugar,
- - ½ tsp salt,
- - 150 g sifted flour,
- - 1 tbsp. vanilla sugar.
- For ganache:
- - 250 ml heavy cream,
- - 50 g sugar
- - 50 g butter,
- - 250 g of chocolate,
- - 2 tsp ground coffee,
- - a pinch of salt,
- - vanilla to taste.
Instructions
Step 1
First you need to prepare the cakes. To do this, the butter is cut into cubes, the chocolate is broken into pieces. Everything is put in a bowl and placed in a water bath, melted, coffee is added to it and everything is mixed until a homogeneous composition.
Step 2
In another bowl, eggs are beaten with three types of sugar and salt. The chocolate mixture is added there and everything is mixed again. Sifted flour is added and mixed again until smooth.
Step 3
Two molds of the same size must be greased with oil and overlaid with parchment. Then divide the dough into 2 parts, pour into molds and put in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
Step 4
The molds are removed from the oven, placed on the wire rack and cooled to room temperature. After that, the cakes should be removed from the molds.
Step 5
Now it's the turn to make ganache. First you need to break the chocolate into pieces, and pour the cream into a ladle. Add sugar, butter, coffee and vanillin there. Bring everything to almost a boil and remove from heat. The creamy mass must be filtered into chocolate, mixed so that the chocolate melts and takes on a homogeneous thick consistency.
Step 6
The ganache will be infused for about an hour until it thickens.
Step 7
Put one cake on the table and brush with 2/3 of the ganache. Put another cake on top, brush with the remaining ganache and smooth the top.
Step 8
Store the dessert in the refrigerator in a well-closed container.
