Colorful Chocolate cake

Kids love colorful cakes. You can try this recipe to make your kid happy at home. This was my first time with a chocolate ganache and I am pretty glad the way it turned out to... It is easy and yummy.

I sincerely thank Joyofbaking for making things easier for me. 

Ingredients

For the Cake

• 150 g plain flour/self raising flour
• 300 g caster sugar
• 3 tsp cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp coffee powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 150 ml milk
• 100 ml sunflower oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

For the chocolate ganache

• 400 g. blocks of dark/milk chocolate
• 1.5 cup thickened cream
• 50 gm butter
• Caster sugar as required
• 1-2 tbsp milk (if required)

For decoration of the cake

• plenty of colorful cadbury gems
• A few packet of KitKat
• A ribbon of your choice

Preparation  of the Chocolate Cake

• • Preheat the oven to 180 C/350 F
  • Grease the cake tin
  • Sift the cake flour, cocoa powder ,baking powder salt and coffee powder in a large bowl.
  • In another bowl mix 300gms caster sugar, 2 eggs, oil and vanilla extract.
  • Whisk the ingredients continuously with a electric whisker a normal whisker for 5-7 mins. There shouldn't be any lump in it.
  • Pour the wet mix into the dry mixture of and keep whisking with a hand blender (Do not use the electric blender as that might get the air away and as result you might end up with a flat cake instead of a fluffy one).
  • At last pour some milk in it and keep whisking. You need to keep whisking till you get a smooth and ribbony texture.
  • Pour the cake mixture in the greased tin.
  • Put it in the microwave oven for 40-45 minutes at 180 degree C.
  • Once the top is firm insert a skewer or a blunt knife at the middle of the cake. If it comes out clean then remove the cake from the oven.
  • Wait for 15-20 minutes and let it cool down.
  • Your cake is ready. 
  
  
             Preparation of the Ganache-
  
  
  • Mix the chocolate, butter and cream in a microwave safe bowl and keep it in the microwave for 30 seconds in 100 percent power.
  • The ingredients have melted a bit. Blend them a little and then again place it in the microwave for another 30 seconds and NOT MORE THAN THAT. That will burn the chocolate.
  • Stir the mixture for some time till you get the shiny and smooth texture. If the mixture is too thick then mix little bit of milk in it and continue stirring.
  • Mix the caster sugar in it. Keep stirring so that no lump could be formed.
  • You will get the shiny and chocolaty ganache.

Decorating the Chocolate Cake-




• Keep the ganache in the fridge for half an hour and let it cool. You need to apply on the cake in normal temperature. Let your cake be cooled for 1-2 hours before applying the cold ganache on it.
• Apply the ganache on the cake using a spatula or blunt knife. It should be thick so that you can stick the Kitkat against the cake wall.
• Spread the ganache evenly on the top and sides of the cake. 
• Stick the Kitkat on the cake wall.
• Top it with colorful cadbury gems.
• Your cake is ready.