Chocolate Truffle Cake

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 12 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make chocolate truffle cake? Prepare all the necessary ingredients for the sponge cake. You will learn how to make a tall sponge cake by reading an article on this topic; the link to it is at the end of the recipe.

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the eggs in running water with food grade cleaner and crack them into a bowl. Add sugar.

3. STEP 3

   

   Beat the eggs with a mixer at high speed. The mass should turn white and greatly increase in size.

4. STEP 4

   

   Sift the flour through a sieve, this will saturate it with oxygen and make the baked goods more airy. Mix well, you can just use a whisk. Remember that you may need a little less or more flour. Read more about this in the article on the properties of flour. There is a link at the end of this recipe.

5. STEP 5

   

   Sift the cocoa into a bowl and stir with a whisk until the color is uniform.

6. STEP 6

   

   Soda must be extinguished with lemon juice. To do this, squeeze the juice from the lemon directly into the soda, it will hiss and begin to bubble, stir it in the process with a teaspoon. Immediately add slaked soda to the dough and stir. Read about the features of baking using soda in the article, the link is at the end of the recipe.

7. STEP 7

   

   Grease the mold with vegetable oil, you can put parchment on the bottom. Pour the dough into the mold. Bake the biscuit in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 30 minutes. Cooking times and temperatures may vary. Read more about how to choose the right baking time and temperature in the article. The link is at the end of the recipe.

8. STEP 8

   

   Determine readiness with a toothpick; it should remain dry and clean when inserted and removed from the biscuit. Leave the finished biscuit to cool in the mold.

9. STEP 9

   

   How to make cream? It should be correctly called ganache. It will also be used to make candies for decoration. Prepare all the necessary ingredients.

10. STEP 10

    

    Cream, be sure to be as fat as possible!, heat almost to a boil, but do not boil!!! Place chocolate in them, broken into pieces. It will immediately begin to melt, stir it vigorously with a whisk.

11. STEP 11

    

    The chocolate should completely dissolve, the mass will become smooth and homogeneous. Remove the pan from the heat, let the mixture cool and put our ganache in the refrigerator for at least three hours.

12. STEP 12

    

    After cooling, the cream will thicken greatly. Set aside some for candy.

13. STEP 13

    

    Beat the rest of the cream with a mixer. Beat briefly until it lightens and becomes more fluffy.

14. STEP 14

    

    Cut the biscuit into four layers.

15. STEP 15

    

    Let's start assembling the cake. Coat each layer well with cream.

16. STEP 16

    

    Also coat the top and sides of the cake well.

17. STEP 17

    

    How to make glaze?

18. STEP 18

    

    Place sugar, cocoa and water in a saucepan. Place on the fire, stirring constantly, bring the mixture to a boil.

19. STEP 19

    

    The glaze should become homogeneous, without lumps. Add butter to it, stir. Remove from heat.

20. STEP 20

    

    Wait just a couple of minutes (so that the icing cools slightly) and pour the glaze over our cake. While it is warm, it should spread well over the cake. The glaze that has flowed down the sides can be carefully removed, or the cake can be transferred to a clean dish.

21. STEP 21

    

    Make truffle candies from the reserved ganache. Pour cocoa powder into a plate, form balls of cream with your hands and quickly roll them in cocoa.

22. STEP 22

    

    Decorate the cake with sweets. When making it, you can sprinkle it with cocoa powder. Serve the cake with hot, aromatic tea, coffee or cocoa. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

TariTori

01.09.2023

4.7

Everything about this cake is perfect. Chocolate sponge cake, butter cream, glaze... Thanks for the great recipe! I can’t resist sharing the recipe for another sponge cake with butter cream

Esenija

01.09.2023

4.8

oh what a delicious chocolate cake!!!

Galina

01.09.2023

5

There is only 3 tablespoons of flour in the biscuit?... Is that accurate?

Yulia M

01.09.2023

4.6

I really love chocolate and everything connected with it, so I decided to make such a cake! It's just MEGA - chocolate! I would even say - chocolate chocolate in chocolate!!! They are very convenient for feeding guests - the cake is filling and you won’t be able to eat too much of it!

Olga

01.09.2023

4.6

The cake turned out to be just a bomb, I didn’t even have time to take a photo of it in its entirety 🙃, I made the cream inside in circles and added salted caramel in between 😋, and added chocolate chips 🥰 and sweets for the finishing. Thanks for the recipe 🤗

OksanaManakova

01.09.2023

4.6

Thank you very much for the recipe! This is a super recipe for chocolate lovers! This is chocolate covered in chocolate with a chocolate aftertaste and a magical aroma... I baked it for my daughter on her 16th birthday. The white package is also white chocolate...

OksanaManakova

01.09.2023

4.9

Thank you