Chocolate Ganache Cake

I’ve made it at last!!  A few weeks ago, a friend and I went out for drinks and supper and found ourselves in the middle of a bachelorette party complete with giant chocolate penis ganache cake.  No, it wasn’t made of it…it was shaped like it ;)  Don’t ponder too long about it though.  The point is, the cake was absolutely divine and I must admit that raving about a penis cake is not something I thought I would find myself doing.

Nonetheless, here I am blogging about it.  I trawled the internet looking for a very easy recipe as I don’t really see myself as the baking type although admittedly, I’ve never really made a flop of something that I did try to bake.  Not counting the “herb” microwave cake once tried during highschool.  But moving swiftly along….

I found an easy recipe and decided that Easter weekend would be the perfect time to try out all things chocolaty. 

It did feel like a bit of an experiment.  Seeing the bicarb mix with the vinegar was quite… entertaining….and unconventional for a chocolate cake mixture.  My favourite part though was making the actual ganache with only two ingredients - dessert cream and Lindt!  The cake was baking away snuggly in the oven at this point. 

The melting of the Lindt…hmmmmmmm…I could have stopped here and called it a success ;)

Added the cream, took out the cake…

And the final result….chocolate heaven...there was nothing left by the time 4pm came around Easter Sunday!  This is for sure a recipe I'd try again....however next time I need to perfect the colour of the ganache.

Hope you all had a fabulous long weekend!

Much Love

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