My mom just had her birthday. She’s like me, a real chocolate person. Now that I’ve made a name for myself as a bit of a baker, I had no choice but to go all out for mom’s birthday.
The recipes that I put on this blog are either my own concoctions, or modifications that I’ve made to other recipes. This is the first recipe that I pretty much followed from start to finish. After all, I didn’t want to take any chance with my mom’s cake.
Here’s a video that I found on 5min:
There are three steps to make this cake: cake, cream and frosting.
- Prep Time: 60 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
Triple Chocolate Chocolate Cake
This cake is totally decadent!
Ingredients
- Cake
- flour - 2 cups
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon
- baking soda - 1 teaspoon
- salt - 1 teaspoon
- oil - 1/2 cup
- cocoa powder - 1 cup
- maple syrup - 1 cup
- vanilla - 1 teaspoon
- water - 1 cup
- Butter Cream
- baking chocolate - 8 oz.
- maple syrup - 1/4 cup
- tofu - 12 oz.
- margarine - 1 cup
- vanilla - 1 teaspoon
- Fondante
- baking chocolate - 4 oz.
- soy milk - 1/2 cup
Instructions
Cake:
- Mix ingredients together.
- Pour in 2 circular baking dishes that have been sprayed with Pam.
- Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees
Butter cream:
- 8 oz. bitter sweet baking chocolate
- 1/4 c. maple syrup
- 12 oz. tofu
- 1 c. margarine
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- Melt chocolate.
- Put all ingredients in a food processor and blend.
- Add chocolate and blend until creamy. Scrape sides as necessary.
- Refrigerate.
Fondante:
- 4 oz. baking chocolate
- 1/2 cup soy milk
- Melt chocolate.
- Stir in soy milk.
Putting it all together:
- Take cream out of fridge and whip.
- Place one layer of cake on a plate.
- Spread about 1/3 of cream on the cake.
- Add second cake.
- Spread cream on top and sides.
- Cool in fridge to let firm up.
- Pour fondante on and spread. You can let it drip down the sides.
- Decorate.
It was a lot of work, but it came out really yummy. This is totally a special occasion cake and takes a lot of time to make. I must really love my mother!
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I can say it was absolutely delicious. The only complaint I have is there was none left over the next day.
So have another birthday! I look forward to making it again for you next year (or whatever cake you choose). Love you.