Devil's Food Chocolate Cake

My family memang suka chocolate cake, even my hubby loves chocolate, macam arwah Papa my hubby. Usually i baked the chocolate cake yang dah biasa buat tu but today rasa nak buat this cake called Devil's Food Chocolate Cake. Bukan apa, i always blog walking, suka tengok kek yang cantik-cantik di decorate by the great baker. One of the food blogger that i admire is Bisousatoi and Kitchen Guardian. I always showed it to my daughter how nice and the cake look so delicious.

Today, kebetulan Mother's Day, she ask me to bake this cake and she want me to do the same like the one in the picture!!! Alahai....mummy tak pandai nak decorate kek ni anak oiiiii...tapi tak nak kecewakan dia, i try aje lah!!!

This afternoon i went to TMC in Bangsar to get all the ingredient. First time baking this cake and first time using Valrhona chocolate for the cake and ganache. Tak tau le apa rasa coz i'm fasting today. Have to wait lepas berbuka baru tau. Thanks to Kitchen Guardian, jangan marah ye i ikut cara mendekorasi kek tu, coz my daughter nak yang sama gak macam dalam gambar katanya.Tak sabar tunggu 18 May nak jumpa and belajar ilmu dari Kitchen Guardian aka Osmayani Osman. She's one of the great baker i would love to meet and get all the useful tips in baking.Same with Rima from Bisousatoi, tak kedekut ilmu, semoga tuhan membalas orang2 sebegini dengan rezeki melimpah ruah!



Here is the recipe

Source Bisousatoi

Ingredients
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder (i used valrhona)
3/4 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/4 tsp salt (i used 1/2 tsp)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
65 gram butter
1 large egg - size A
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup buttermilk (i used fresh milk and added 1tbsp vinegar)
1/2 cup warm water


Methods
Preheat oven at 170C .. greased cake tin
Sieve flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate soda, salt, and set aside.
Beat butter with sugars until light and fluffy, add egg.
Add dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder etc) alternately with liquid ingredients (buttermilk + warm water) in three portions
Add vanilla extract and continue to mix till well blended
Bake for about 30 minutes or until just cooked


Cream Cheese Frosting
250 g cream cheese (room temp)
125 g butter (room temp)
1 cup icing sugar - sifted
1 tsp vanilla extract
juice of a squeezed slice of lemon, to rid the cheese taste

Beat cream cheese and butter, just until creamy, add the icing sugar, vanilla and lemon juice.


Chocolate Ganache
200 ml double cream with at least 30% fat content
250 g dark chocolate, chopped finely (i used valrhona)
a pinch of salt

In a double boiler, warm double cream until just at boiling point, add chopped chocolate and salt and stir, when all chocolate is melted, remove from the heat and continue stirring until all well mixed.

Cool cake completely, spread the cream cheese frosting and pour cool ganache on top.

I layered the cake with cream cheese and coat with chocolate ganache, top it up with maltesers .