Ingredients
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Chocolate Cake
- 300g Caster Sugar
- 210g Plain Flour
- 75g Cocoa Powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 2g Salt
- 2 each Eggs
- 188g Buttermilk
- 70g Canola Oil
- 2g Vanilla Paste
- 188g Water (Warm)
Salted Caramel
- 300g Caster Sugar
- 200g Butter u/s
- 220g Cream 35% Fat
- 4g Salt
- 4g Vanilla Paste
- 50g Pecans (Roasted & Roughly Chopped)
Chocolate Ganache
- 200g Cream 35% Fat
- 20g Glucose (Or Corn Syrup or Honey)
- 200g Dark Chocolate
- 50g Butter u/s
- 1g Salt
Instructions
Chocolate Cake:
- Sieve the dry ingredients together
- Add the wet ingredients
- Whisk the dry and wet ingredients together
- Add the water in 2 parts and whisk well together
- Pour into tray and bake at 175 degrees celsius for 30 mins
Salted Caramel:
- Dry caramelise the sugar
- Add the cream, salt and vanilla to deglaze
- Add the caramel to a jug and add the pecans and blitz with a hand blender until smooth
- Lastly add the butter and blitz until smooth
Chocolate Ganache:
- Head the cream to roughly 70 degrees celsius
- Pour the cream over the chocolate and glucose
- Use a hand blender to blitz in the butter and salt
Assembly:
- Pour the caramel over the baked chocolate cake and refrigerate until caramel is stable
- Sprinkle roasted pecans on top of the caramel
- Pour the ganache over the caramel layer and refrigerate until set
- Add the leftover cooked bake crumbs on top
- Serve warm or straight from the fridge
- Prep Time: 2 hour
- Cook Time: 30 min
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