Salted Chocolate Ganache Cake - Cooking Light
- Ready In:
- 1hr 3mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- cooking spray
- 2 teaspoons cake flour
- 5 1⁄3 ounces sifted cake flour (about 1 1/4 cups)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 1 large egg
- 3⁄4 cup fat-free evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large egg whites
- 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 2 1⁄2 ounces dark chocolate, divided
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1⁄4 teaspoon sea salt or 1/4 teaspoon fleur de sel
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Coat 1 (9-inch) round cake pan with cooking spray; dust with 2 teaspoons flour.
- Weigh or lightly spoon 5.3 ounces flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and baking powder in a bowl; stir with a whisk. Place 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 5 minutes). Add egg; mix well. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla.
- Beat egg whites with a mixer at high speed until foamy using clean, dry beaters. Gradually add 3 tablespoons sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. Gently fold half of egg white mixture into flour mixture; fold in remaining egg white mixture. Grate 1/2 ounce chocolate; fold grated chocolate into batter. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350° for 23 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cool completely on a wire rack.
- Chop the remaining 2 ounces chocolate. Combine chopped chocolate and 1 tablespoon butter in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at MEDIUM 1 minute or until chocolate melts, stirring every 15 seconds. Spread chocolate mixture over top of cake; sprinkle evenly with sea salt. Cut into 8 wedges.
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When I was very young, my mother was a homemaker and would make these amazing meals that I'll never forget. From an early age I would browse her many cookbooks and always held an interest in the neat ideas and recipes I found. When I was older and sometimes home alone, I would find a recipe we had the ingredients for and try my hand at it. Often without permission, and often substituting things that did not go with the dish AT ALL, but a learning experience all the same. :)