Archive for the ‘Gourmet Chocolate Cakes’ Category

Chocolate Coffee Cake Recipe – Dark Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipe

Dark chocolate truffle cake recipe ingredients:

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa powder

Dark chocolate ganache ingredients:

  • 300 grams dark chocolate
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon strong coffee
  • 3/4 cups whipped cream
  • 50 grams cocoa powder

Baking cake recipe instruction:

Beat eggs with sugar. Combine sugar, flour and cocoa and mix that in beaten eggs. Pour egg mixture in the greased cake pan and bake a thin cake (in the preheat oven to 350°F for about 10 minutes).

Dark chocolate ganache recipe:

Melt 200 grams of chocolate in a steamer. Cook a heavy cream in saucepan (in low temperature) to boil, pour it onto melted dark chocolate and whisk it. Add coffee in the chocolate cream and whisk it again.

Set 3 tablespoons of creamy chocolate mixture aside and cool it in freezer to thicken enough to form truffle balls from it.

Chocolate truffle recipe:

Hand roll thicken mixture into 1 inch round balls, dip them into 100 grams of melted chocolate and roll them into cocoa. Place them on wax paper. Refrigerate truffles until coating sets (for about 1 hour).

Chocolate coffee cake recipe instruction:

Cool the rest of chocolate ganache mixture as well and whisk whipped cream in it.

Spread the chocolate coffee cream over baked cake in the cake pan. Sprinkle cocoa powder over cream and decorate a cake with a cooled chocolate truffles.

Keep the chocolate truffle cake in a refrigerator.

No Bake Cookies – Chocolate Wafer Cookie Recipe

Chocolate wafer cookie recipe ingredients:

  • 2 wafers

Chocolate filling ingredients:

  • 5 eggs
  • 18 tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 250 grams unsalted butter
  • 100 grams chocolate
  • 300 grams grounded nuts
  • 300 grams graham crumbs
  • 100 grams raisins
  • 1 cup rum

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Chocolate filled wafer recipe: Soak raisins in rum for an hour and then strain them.

Beat eggs with sugar on the steam to become foamy (about 10 minutes). Mix butter in it to melt and then add chocolate to it to melt also.

Combine graham crumbs, nuts and raisins together and pour them in the chocolate mass. Remove it from heat and stir it to become compact.

Pour your chocolate filling on the wafer and spread it equally on it. Put your second wafer on the filling and press it down with something heavy (some heavy dish for example) to glue filling and wafer. Leave it that way over night.

Cut it next day and your chocolate filled wafer cookies are ready to be served.

If you like, you can pour chocolate frosting on top of the cookies, cool it for few hours more and then serve it.

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Cake Icing with Rum and Chocolate

Recipe ingredients:

  • 150 grams chocolate
  • 2/3 cup whipped cream
  • 1/2 cup rum

Melt chocolate in steam or in low temperature and remove it from the heat. Stir melt chocolate to cool it. Pour whipped cream and rum in it and mix it all together.

You can use cake icing with rum and chocolate like ice cream topping.

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Cake Icing with Coffee and Chocolate

Recipe ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup strong black coffee
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup shredded chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons chocolate liqueur

In low temperature get warm coffee. Pour sugar and chocolate in it and when it begins to boil, pour liqueur also. Mix it all up and remove it from the heat.

You can use cake icing with coffee and chocolate to ice a cake, or you can serve it in glasses as gourmet dessert.

Recipe for Gourmet Rum Cakes

Ingredients:

  • 50 grams sugar
  • 4 tablespoons honey
  • 125 grams unsalted butter
  • 100 grams chocolate
  • 100 grams chopped corn flakes
  • 100 grams raisins
  • 1/4 cup rum
  • 100 grams sesame seeds
  • 100 grams chopped unsalted peanuts

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Soak up raisins in rum at least 30 minute.

Melt sugar and honey in the deep pot and boil it for about 5 minutes. Pour butter in it to melt also and then add chocolate, stir it all the way. When all previous ingredients are melted, pour corn flakes, raisins, sesame and peanuts in it. Stir it and remove it from heat.

Pour cake in the greased cake pan and spread it equally. Put it in refrigerator for a few hours and then cut it as you wish. Your gourmet rum cake is ready to be served. Enjoy!

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Gourmet Chocolate Cake Recipe with Carob

Ingredients:

  • 150 grams sugar
  • fresh juice from 1/2 orange
  • 150 grams unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 200 grams chocolate
  • 150 grams carob powder
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 8 eggs, room temperature
  • 4 – 5 tablespoons apricot jam
  • 1/4 liter (1 cup) whipping cream

Melt sugar in orange juice to boil, then add butter to it and chocolate on the end. When it’s melted and smooth mass remove it from heat. Pour carob and baking powder in it and stir it. carob gourmet cakes

Beat in eggs, mix them in carob mass and pour all of it in greased bake pan. Bake in preheat oven to 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool it for 10-15 minutes. Spread apricot jam on cake and whipping cream on top of it. Refrigerate it for one hour and it’s ready to be served.

Since I am big fun of carob, I made gourmet chocolate cake recipe with carob yesterday and it’s almost gone. It’s soft, juicy and easy cake recipe you’ll like for sure. Enjoy!

Peanut Gourmet Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 200 grams sugar
  • 0,1 liter (1/2 cup) water
  • 200 grams unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 100 grams chocolate
  • 100 grams unsalted ground peanuts
  • 300 grams graham crumbs

Pour sugar in 1/2 cup of boiling water for 5 minutes. Melt butter in it and then 100 grams of chocolate and stir it all the time. When it’s melted and smooth mass, pour mixture of ground peanuts and graham crumbs, stir it quickly and remove it from the heat. Spread cake in a greased cake pan and refrigerate it until you make chocolate frosting. Peanut gourmet chocolate cake

Chocolate frosting:

  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 50 grams unsalted butter
  • 100 grams chocolate

Melt sugar in boiling water and pour butter in it. Add chocolate and stir it to become smooth, without lumps. Take it from heat and pour it on top of peanut gourmet chocolate cake. Refrigerate it again for a few hours then cut it.

In category of gourmet chocolate recipes this cake has my vote. I made it just last night, cause my family adore chocolate cakes and this one is often on our table.