Thursday, November 15, 2012

Chocolate cake with whiskey caramel cream












I baked this cake last week for my friend birthday. I never really made birthday cakes, but i was in the mood to try. I started without recipes, just from my head, and what we had alredy at home. My first idea was just a chocolate cake with a simple caramel sauce, but i decided to use some whiskey, because its much more exiting, and of course with a little bit of alkohol on a birthday party you never go wrong:)


CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH WHISKEY CARAMEL CREAM

for the chocholate cake base:
2 cup plain white flour (1 cup = 250 gr)
half cup of cocoa powder
2 eggs (separate)
half cup caster sugar
2 tbsp of honey
pinch of salt
200 gr. melted unsalted butter
half cup of milk 


for the cream:
3 tbsp of caster sugar
1 tbsp of brown sugar
4 tbsp of corn flour 
2dl milk (full fat )
3 tbsp of whiskey


for the chocolate coating:
1 cup of dark chocolate
250 gr unsalted butter
3 tbsp of double cream


First you have to bake the chocolate cake base. Put the sugar into a bowl with a 2 egg yolks (you need the whites later) , stir it, then add the honey, flour, cocoa powder. pinch of salt, and the melted butter. Add the milk too, and stir together, until its smooth. Then whisk the 2 egg whites, and when it is hard, you can gentle fold into the cake mixture. Then put into the owen, and bake for 40 min, on 180 Degrees C.

For the cream filling, first put all the sugar into a pan, and caramelise, then it is golden brown, you can add the corn flour, what you dissolve in the milk before adding to the caramel. Then stir on a low heat until you have a smooth cream. Wait until it is cool, and then add the whiskey to the cream.

To do the coating just melt all the ingredient on a water steam, and when it is all dissolve you are ready to use.
                                           


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