What is a celebration without cake? Unheard of, right? That is why a cake recipe is very useful during this season for those that prefer to bake the cake rather than buy it. This year, let us try chocolate ganache.

Ingredients

• 200g dark chocolate
• 200g butter
• 1 tablespoon of Nescafe
• 2 tablespoons of baking powder
• 170g plain flour
• 1 tablespoon soda bicarbonate
• 200g brown sugar to help darken the cake
• 200g sugar
• 25g cocoa powder
• 3 eggs
• Quarter glass of plain yoghurt
• Grated chocolate to decorate for the ganache
• 200g dark chocolate
• 284ml whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons of sugar

Process

• Butter a round cake tin and line the base with grease proof paper.
• Preheat the oven to 160°C
• Break the dark chocolate pieces into a pan coupled with butter and mix.
• Then add Nescafe to cold water and pour into the pan mix.
• Warm the contents over low heat, enough to simply melt them.  
• Mix the dry ingredients (plain flour, soda bicarbonate, brown sugar, sugar, and cocoa powder) in a big bowl. Ensure that there are no lumps.
• Beat the eggs in a bowl then add yoghurt and stir.
• Pour the melted chocolate mixture and the egg mixture into the dry ingredient mix. Stir until you have a smooth and consistent runny mixture.
• Pour this into the tin and bake for 185 minutes.
• Leave it to cool in the tin before turning it onto a plate to further cool.
• When cool, cut the cake horizontally into three pieces.

Make the ganache: chop dark chocolate into small pieces and put it aside. Then add cream and sugar in a pan and heat until it is about to boil.

• Pour this mixture over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate has melted, giving you a smooth mixture.
• Pour the ganache over each layer to create a sandwich, putting each layer on top of the other.
• Pour the rest over the cake, letting it flow on down the sides.
• Decorate with the remaining grated chocolate.