Triple Cocoa Caramel Cake

This was a very last minute order...from non other than my all time favourite Ms Peens...Vida, the soft spoken , demure...almost Audrey Hepburn in this era....she called me on Wednesday, wanting a Chugginton cake for his son's birthday do on Saturday...nah...an edible image was too short a notice to order.....a 3D train fondant cake....nah...my hands are just too full with Macarons and Red Velvet cakes to make....so we decided that we took Kiran's toy trains (Chugginton's)...and tra....this was the result!.....

....and the cake...I decided on this Triple Cocoa (without) Caramel cake, I had baked this earlier for my nephew's birthday (photos later)...and the cake was gone instantly...well almost, after it was cut! And the reason why I didn't use homemade caramel...simple....I was really in the nick of time, so I turned to Smucker's Caramel sauce....but the outcome of the cake was to brag the whole entire week...hehe....

Thanks Rima for putting this wonderful recipe...yeah Rima, my other half cacing kepanasan....we just couldn't sit still or we'd catch the temperature.....

Cake

Ingredients

10 eggs

150g sugar

1 tbsp emulsifier

140g flour

60g cocoa powder

80g dark chocolate

100g butter- melted, I used Tatura...always!

Method

1.Preheat oven at 170C. Prepare 2 cake tins, I used 7x10 cake tins.

2.Melt butter, add in cooking chocolate, stir until both butter and chocolate are melted, let cool, set aside.

3.Whisk eggs and sugar until pale and fluffy, should leave a trail on the whisk.

4.Add emulsifier.

5.Add in sifted flour and cocoa powder into egg sugar emulsifier mixture, mix well.

6.Lastly add in the melted butter cocoa mix, and mix well.

7.Divide the batter into the 2 cake tins, bake for about 30 minutes. While waiting for the cake to cook and cool, prepare the ganache and caramel...well I dodged this...clever me!

Choc Ganache

250m whipping  cream, or double cream, I used double cream with 30% fat content.holalala...

250g dark chocolate

30g butter

Method

1.Using double boil method, heat the cream until bubbly, and add in chopped dark chocolate. Turn off heat and stir until both chcocolate and cream are well combined.

2.Cover with a cling wrap, and chill in the fridge for about an hour so the mixture thickens.

Caramel Syrup....or if you are clever (to take short-cuts muawahaha....use Smuckers caramel sauce!)

Ingredients

50g sugar

25ml water

50 ml water 

Method

1.Heat sugar with 25ml water to caramelise it.

2.Add 50ml water to dilute the caramel and turn it into sauce. Let cool!

To assemble the cake

I removed the cakes from the cake tins, and spread caramel sauce in between and sandwich one on top of the other. Then, I spread the ganache all over the cake, before finishing with the tpys, marsmallows.....

hmmm.....I know with all this, making this cake could be daunting....but trust me you just have to study (hehe) the ingredients and do the steps one by one and you'll get a lovely very moist and chcocolatey cake! Voila! Thanks Vida for this order!