Chocolate Truffle Cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Let's start making a cake with a sponge cake.

2. Step 2:

   

   Break the eggs into a bowl, add sugar.

3. Step 3:

   

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

4. Step 4:

   

   Add flour, mix well, you can just whisk.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add cocoa, stir until smooth.

6. Step 6:

   

   Soda should be extinguished with lemon juice. To do this, squeeze the juice from the lemon directly into the soda, it will sizzle and begin to bubble, mix it in the process with a teaspoon. Add the slaked soda to the dough, stir.

7. Step 7:

   

   Grease the mold with vegetable oil, you can put parchment on the bottom. Pour out the dough. Bake the sponge cake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.

8. Step 8:

   

   Readiness is determined by a toothpick, it should remain dry and clean if it is inserted and removed from the biscuit. We leave the finished biscuit to cool in the mold.

9. Step 9:

   

   Now let's do the cream. It should be called ganache correctly. It will also be used to make sweets for decoration.

10. Step 10:

    

    Cream, be sure to be as fat as possible!, should be heated almost to a boil, but do not boil!!! Put chocolate in them, broken into pieces. It will immediately begin to melt, it is necessary to mix it actively with a whisk.

11. Step 11:

    

    The chocolate should completely dissolve, the mass will become smooth and homogeneous. We put our ganache in the refrigerator for at least three hours.

13. Step 12:

    

    After cooling, the cream will thicken greatly. We'll put some of it aside for candy.

14. Step 13:

    

    Beat the rest of the cream with a mixer. Whisk for a short time, it will lighten and become more lush.

15. Step 14:

    

    Cut the sponge cake into four cakes.

16. Step 15:

    

    Starting to assemble the cake. we coat each layer well with cream.

17. Step 16:

    

    It is also good to coat the top and sides of the cake.

18. Step 17:

    

    Prepare the glaze.

19. Step 18:

    

    Put sugar, cocoa and water in a ladle. Put on the fire, stirring constantly, bring to a boil.

20. Step 19:

    

    The glaze should become homogeneous, without lumps. Put the butter in it, stir. Remove from the fire.

21. Step 20:

    

    We wait just a couple of minutes and pour icing on our cake. While it is warm, it should spread well over the cake. The glaze that has run down on the sides can be carefully removed, or put the cake on clean dishes.

22. Step 21:

    

    We make truffle candies from the delayed ganache. We pour cocoa powder into a plate, form balls of cream with our hands and quickly roll them into cocoa.

23. Step 22:

    

    Decorate the cake with sweets, you can sprinkle it with cocoa powder.