Cake Recipe: http://www.instructables.com/id/The-BEST-chococlate-cake-ever...that-happens-to-be/Filling Recipe: http://www.easy-cake-ideas.com/chocolate-ganache.html (scroll down to ingredients for the start of the recipe)
It was my birthday the other day and i wanted to make cake so i did :D. This recipe is a little irritating in that it's in american measurements which i'm not used to. But it works and it saves having to find and dust the scales.
Once i'd made my cakes and they were sat in the oven.. (i decided to make it a sandwich cake rather than have it have no filling and risk it not being moist), I looked up vegan cake fillings without much luck and decided to adapt a non-vegan one by using Alpro Soya cream and unsweetened cocoa powder instead of milk chocolate and double dairy cream.
The Ganache needed putting in the freezer and checking every 10 minutes until it got a bit thicker and would be less likely to run off the cakes, but i didn't leave it in the cold long enough and it did so anyway. luckily i'd made enough for the liquid to be at the right level while the entire cake cooled in the fridge overnight.
I forgot to use baking paper so i had some trouble moving the sandwiches on top of one another, until i decided to forgoe perfection (sob) and cut the one layer in half and move it that way.
Tasting it, I felt the cake needed more sugar than the recipe asked for because it left an oddly sour taste in my mouth. But it was perfectly moist and buoyant.
V xx
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