Ganache Frosted Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Cake

  • 100 grams unsweetened baking chocolate chopped.
  • 100 grams unsalted butter and extra for greasing
  • 60 grams erythritol
  • 1 Teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 Teaspoon coffee granules
  • 150 ml boiling water
  • 75 grams almond flour
  • 2 Eggs

Ganache

  • 100 Grams unsweetened chocolate chopped.
  • 100 ml heavy cream or coconut cream
  • 1 Tablespoon erythritol
  • 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter

Method

  1. Preheat oven at 200 degrees Celsius, Grease smallest size baking pan, place parchment paper and grease set aside.
  2. Beat eggs and vanilla and set aside.
  3. In a bowl, dissolve coffee in boiling water, add chocolate and butter stir until chocolate melts.
  4. Add sweetener and keep mixing until it dissolves.
  5. Stir in eggs and mix well. the mixture will be runny, it is the right consistency.
  6. Gradually stir in almond flour until it melts in completely.
  7. Pour batter into pan (this batter makes 2 cakes), the batter should be runny.
  8. Bake for 50 -60 minutes or until centre of the cake is fully baked.
  9. Ganache: Blitz chocolate in a food processor until smooth, in a heated pan stir in cream and sweetener, remove from heat once it starts to bubble, continue blitzing chocolate and gradually add cream until smooth. Add butter until ganache is shiny.
  10. Frost cake as you like.
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