What?!? Devil's Food Cake ...
I think probably anyone of you dear Steemian compatriots had tasted this celestial cake.
This recipe is for these of you who has not been blessed with a unique journey to the center of your taste receptors.
But enough mumbling,
and let me tell you about my first experience creating this supreme delight.
I always loved chocolate. From my youngest years my dream (one of them) was to eat as many chocolate i can or one day in the week, the whole day to eat only and entirely - chocolate.
I've done that so many time that I actually lost count
But somewhere on that sweet road i also found that i love to cook with chocolate. And i start experimenting! First with traditional recipes, than combining them and afterward i start to create my own recipes or infuse the old ones.
Today i want to share with all of you my personal recipe for Devil's Food Cake with Chocolate Moose and Orange Jam.
First i like to inform you that this cake is so rich that, one of my friends suggested that it can rise the dead from their graves ... or to put someone in.
But those are his words, for me it is just perfect.
So let's begin.
The required ingredients:
For the layers:
18 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
10 ounces unsalted butter, room temperature
2/4 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
3 cups superfine or caster sugar
4 eggs size L
3 cups cake flour, not self rising
5 onces milk chocolate
1 cup whole fat milk
1 cup strong coffee
For the chocolate mouse:
8 ounces semisweet chocolate
3 egg whites
2 tablespoons sugar
11/2 cups heavy whipping cream
For the chocolate ganache:
15 ounces semisweet chocolate
4.5 ounces unsalted butter
1 cup heavy whipping cream
orange jam (optional)
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 356 degrees Fahrenheit.
Place the milk chocolate into a large microwave safe bowl. Microwave just until melted. Stir until thoroughly combined. Sift all the dried ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add the butter and using a stand mixer or just more powerful hand mixer start to mix the ingredients, in a while start to add the sugar, eggs, milk and coffee. Mix it well. Add the cooled milk chocolate to the mixture and stir well till everything is combined.
For the cake layers you will need two cake forms(pans) if you want to cook together, if not cover wit parchment paper one 9 inch cake form and bake one first and the second after. Bake it around 30-35 minutes.
While you bake the layers we will make the chocolate mouse. Repeat the milk chocolate melting process and let it cool completely before continuing.
Place the egg whites into a mixing bowl fitted with a wire whisk(here i want to say how good is to use a fine wire whisk or hand mixer, mine died on the half way and i have continue doing this whole operation by hand) . Beat on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, with the mixer running. Beat on high until stiff peaks form. Set aside.
Place the cream into a mixing bowl fitted with a wire whisk. Beat on medium speed just until stiff peaks form.
Whisk ⅓ of the whipped cream into the cooled chocolate mixture. Fold in the egg whites followed by the remaining whipped cream. Refrigerate if not using immediately.
To make the ganache heat the whipping cream and butter in a saucepan and pour over the semisweet chocolate, leave it for 30 seconds and start to mix until well combined. Do not put in the refrigerator because the butter will "froze""and will stay on lumps. After it cools completely mix it with hand mixer so to become more creamy.
Assemble
After you bake the layers and they are cooled down, cut them in have and now you have 4 layers and from now on it is only your imagination. Cover the cake with the rest of the cream. I did the first layer with chocolate mouse, the second with cream/ganache/ or orange jam. and ate the excess ganache :)
