Chocolate Cake with coffee

we all need a good chocolate cake recipe for birthdays or for any other occasion or some times you just ran out of chocolate cake mix. this cake has chocolate butter cream and chocolate genache to add more richness

Ingredients

• 1 and 3/4 of flour

• 1 cup of yogurt

• 1 and 3/4 cups of sugar

• 1/2 cup of oil

• 2 eggs

• 3/4 cups natural unsweetened coco powder

• 1 tea spoon of baking powder

• 1 tea spoon of baking soda

• 1 cup of hot fresh coffee or instant coffee

Ganache

• 100 g of semisweet chocolate

• 1/2 Heavy cream

Chocolate butter cream

• 125 g butter

• 3 cups of icing sugar

• 1/2 cup of coco powder

• 1/2 cup of heavy cream or milk (add one spoon at a time as needed)

Instructions on the cake

• Preheat the oven at 180 C°

• Shift the coco powder, flour, baking soda, baking powder and a pinch of salt in a bowl and keep it a side

• Mix the oil, eggs and sugar and yogurt in the mixer until it is well combined

• Add the flour mixture into 2 portions

• Finally add the hot coffee and mix well. The mixture should look a bit runny that is how it supposed to look.

• Pour the mixture into the cake pan

• Cook for 30 minutes or until it is done in the middle and nut runny.

Instructions on the genache

• Melt the chocolate into water bath and then add the cream, keep mixing until reaching the desired consistency

Instructions on the butter cream

• Sift the coco powder and the sugar powder to get rid of any granules Cream the soft room temperature butter by mixing until it is fluffy and airy

• Gradually add the sugar powder mixture and adding the cream interchanging between the two until the butter cream reaches the creamy consistency

• Only add cream or milk as need so it will not be too runny or too stiff so keep adding 1 spoon at a time

• If you are making layered cake cut the layers before preparing I usually use the bottom side up when layering because it is more flat

• Add the chocolate butter cream on the edge and then add the ganache in the middle on each layer. After finishing the layers cover with chocolate buttercream and drip with the chocolate ganache on top.