When the senior grad student needs chocolate, you give the thesis writer chocolate ! This is, as we called it in lab, an ‘epic’ chocolate cake. Here is the link to the original recipe. My cake decorating skills are not that great, but the cake sure tasted good. here are some snippets !
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/chocolate-truffle-layer-cake
the cake layers
the ganche layers
a whipped chocolate frosting, I skipped the rich chocolate frosting to make the cake just a little lighter. The frosting was a mix of cool whip, heavy cream and chocolate pudding mix
the layering. NOTE; FOLLOW THE WHITE CHOCOLATE RECIPE ! I DID NOT AND MY GANCHE WAS ALL DRIPPY-FAIL !
the finished product with shaved white and milk chocolate for decoration
And let them eat cake 🙂
roll the leftover ganache in chopped almonds and now you truffles !
Oh yum!!
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Pinned this immediately. Love that you utilized the leftover ganache! This cake has every element one could want – YUM.
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This must be the healing remedy for terrible dis-ease. It has to be.
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Your cake is beautiful and sounds heavenly!
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That looks and sounds amazing!!!
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