Lara's Signature Chocolate-Vanilla Cake |
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Prep Time: 60 Minutes Cook Time: 1 Minutes |
Ready In: 61 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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This is the cake I make for birthdays . Its simple , delicious and ... well , my signature :) The cake is pretty forgiving, quite dense and cracks on top - I got the recipe from a cooking course, the icing is also one of my recipes and the mousse can come from a mix. Ingredients:
185 g butter, room temperature and chopped into small pieces |
2 teaspoons vanilla essence |
1 1/2 cups sugar, sifted |
3 eggs |
2 cups self raising flour, sifted |
2/3 cup cocoa, sifted |
1 cup water |
2 cups icing sugar, sifted |
2 teaspoons plain yogurt (can be low fat or sweetened) |
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract |
3 teaspoons boiling water |
350 g rich chocolate mousse mix |
Directions:
1. [IN THE EVENING BEFORE]
2. Grease a 9-inch cake pan and preheat oven to 160/375 degrees Celcius / Farenheit.
3. On a low speed, beat butter, essence, sugar, eggs, flour, cocoa and water in a large bowl until they are well mixed.
4. Then beat at a higher speed until the colour of the mixture changes and everything is very well mixed.
5. Spread into pan.
6. Bake for one hour or until a toothpick comes out clean.
7. Prepare mousse.
8. Leave them both to cool/chill during the night.
9. [IN THE MORNING].
10. Cut cake in half (carefully !).
11. Spread mousse evenly across the bottom half and position top half on top - carefully push it down a bit to 'set' it.
12. Make icing - stir yoghurt and vanilla into icing sugar until thick.
13. Quickly add and mix in the hot water.
14. Immediately spread on cake.
15. I suggest decorating it with chocolate letters, chopped almonds or dusted cocoa.
16. Also try subbing the chocolate mousse with straciatella mousse.
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