Photo by: Cheri
Favorite Moist Chocolate Cake
Food Ingredients:
Cake: 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 teaspoons baking soda 3/4 cup baking cocoa 2 cups sugar 1 cup oil 1 cup brewed coffee 1 cup milk 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse: 1/2 package (4oz) cream cheese 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup pureed strawberries 3/4 cup cold heavy cream Ganache: 9 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped 1 cup heavy cream
Recipe preparation:
1 To Make Cake: 2 Sift together dry ingredients. Add oil, coffee and milk. Whisk until combined. Add eggs and vanilla. Whisk until well incorperated (about 2 min.). It will be quite runny. 3 Grease and flour 2- 9 inch round pans. Pour the batter into the pans and bake at 325ºF for 25-30 min until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. 4 Let the cakes cool in the pans for 10 min. before removing to cool completely. 5 To Make Strawberry Mousse: 6 Mix together the cream cheese and sugar until completely smooth. Mix in the pureed strawberries. 7 Whip the cream to stiff peaks and fold into the strawberry cream cheese mixture. 8 Line a 9 inch round pan (the same size you used for the cakes) with plastic wrap and pour the mousse inside. Freeze until solid. 9 To Make Ganache: 10 Bring cream to a boil over medium heat. 11 Poor over chocolate. Let sit for a moment then stir until smooth. 12 Let cool to room temp. 13 To Assemble: 14 Remove mousse from freezer and unwrap. 15 Place one cake layer on serving platter. Position frozen mousse in the centre and top with remaining cake layer. 16 Allow to thaw for 30 min, or so. 17 Meanwhile drizzle with ganache and garnish with fresh strawberries.
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