Rich Chocolate Moist Cake (Zack)

I didn't realise that I am that daring courageous! I bravely accepted another challenge from my sifoo Kak Liza . We were chatting on Yahoo Messenger when she asked me if I could bake for her a chocolate cake to be delivered to her son in Shah Alam, as a surprise birthday cake for her daughter Azlina. I have doubt at first, as I have never before successfully decorate a cake with chocolate ganache. But then, I said to myself, if I don't try it now, when will I try it then? And if I don't dare to try, how am I supposed to know that I am capable or not! What's more, I mustn't let all the tips that Ana had kindly taught me, go to waste! On top of that, the cake that Kak Liza requested came from a well known sifoo in baking, non other than RinnChan who took the recipe from a talented lady in baking, Zack aka Mrs Zairul in Japan. As you can see read, all the names mentioned above are all BIG names in this baking world. That means, the recipe should be nice, insyaAllah. I will bake another cake for us to taste... when? Don't ask....

Anyway, thanks to....
~ Kak Liza for trusting me with this order
~ Ana, for coaching me with the ganache
~ Zack, for discovering the recipe and sharing it with us
~ Rinn, for promoting the recipe and for making me suffer to see the glossy look of her chocolate cake!

And presenting to you....my almost successful chocolate moist cake with chocolate ganache... hahaha...

RICH CHOCOLATE MOIST CAKE
Source : Zack aka Mrs Zairul

Ingredients A :

170gm butter
300gm castor sugar
3 eggs

Ingredients B :

2 teaspoons Nescafe granules
1 tablespoon lukewarm water
1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
1 teaspoon Chocolate emulco

Ingredients C :

225gm flour
65gm cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

180ml chilled water from the refrigerator


Method :

1. Beat butter and sugar on high speed till light.
2. Add eggs, one at a time and continue beating.
3. Mix well ingredients B and pour a little at a time into the batter. Beat a few minutes more.
4. Sift ingredients C. Cut and fold ingredients C into the batter alternately with chilled water, starting and ending with flour.
5. Grease a 9 inch round tin or lined it with greaseproof paper. Pour the batter into the tin and bake in a preheated oven at 175 C for 40 minutes or till done.

TOPPING

1 can condensed milk
90gm cocoa powder
100ml corn oil or melted butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

In a small pot on slow fire, heat the milk (make sure the milk doesn't get burnt!). Add in sifted cocoa powder and stir to mix. Add in vanilla essence and corn oil/melted butter. Stir to mix well and shiny, about 5 minutes. Once lukewarm, pour onto the cooled cake and decorate as you wish.


The following recipe, in Bahasa Malaysia was copied and pasted from Rinn's Fotopage. Halal yek!

RICH CHOCOLATE MOIST CAKE

Bahan-bahan :

BAHAN A:
170gm butter
300gm gula castor
3 biji telur

BAHAN B :
2 tsp serbuk nescafe segera
1 tbs air suam
1 tsp esen vanilla
1 tsp choc emulco

BAHAN C :
225gm tepung gandum
65gm serbuk koko
1/2 tsp garam halus
1 tsp soda bicarbonate
1 1/2 tsp baking powder

180ml air sejuk dari petiais

CARA-CARA:
1. Gunakan mixer dengan kelajuan tinggi, putar Bahan A sehingga kembang.
2. Masukkan telur satu demi satu dan terus putar.
3. Campur sebati semua bahan B dan titiskan ke adunan butter tadi. Putar seketika dan hentikan putaran.
4. Ayak Bahan C. Masukkan berselang-seli dengan air sejuk bermula dengan tepung dan berakhir dengan tepung. Gunakan spatula untuk mengkaup balik adunan. Jangan putar.
5. Alas dan gris loyang bulat 9". Bakar pada suhu 175 darj cel selama 40min atau sehingga kek masak.

TOPPING
1 tin susu pekat
90gm serbuk koko
100ml minyak jagung atau butter cair
1 tsp esen vanilla

Di dalam periuk, panaskan susu sebentar. Ayakkan serbuk koko ke dalam susu, terus kacau rata. Masukkan minyak/butter cair dan vanilla. Kacau sehingga rata dan berkilat, lebihkurang 5 minit. Biarkan suam baru tuang atas kek yang telah sejuk. Hias ikut suka.