Spring is in the air, I can see flowers blooming along the road side. In Texas, during spring you can see the sighting of wildflower’s blooming. Especially those bluebonnets, they are just beauty. If I see them I will show you the pictures of it for sure. My princess has been asking for a chocolate cake for long time, since my hands were paining I could not do it. Finally with the pain down to manageable level, I decide to try the Devil‘s food cake with chocolate ganache forsting.
I had borrowed book “Dessert Fourplay "by Johnny Luzzini from the library. It has lot of very nice recipes, but each of these recipes is complicated with several components made separately. At this time I don’t have the luxury to make a dish with all components at a stretch, so tried only Devil’s food cake. This cake also has mayonnaise as one of the components, and according to Johnny, it makes the cake soft. Yes it is really soft. Also I like that after cutting it will retain its shape. This cake can make a great birthday cake; if you want a layer cake you can do that too. The cake is not that sweet.
I have seen old style chocolate cake with mayonnaise, and want to try that. During "World War II" or "Depression-Era” food was scarce, so home cooks tried to cook with what they have it in hand. This Mayo –chocolate cake may have originated at that time. Mayo and chocolate goes well, I was not convinced about this combination that until I made this cake. This cake has super moist crumb and doesn’t require any butter; only need some extra eggs. There are different variations of mayonnaise, use one with oil, eggs and vinegar. Earlier I had made chocolate cake with sour cream, and this cake is also delicious. If you want to make layered chocolate cake, may be double the amount so that you can make two 9 inch cake. Normally in a chocolate cake we add cocoa powder in hot water to bloom first. But for this cake you don’t need to do that step.
Even though you might hate using mayonnaise, give it a try and when you bite into this cake, you won’t realize there is any mayonnaise in it. Marriage between mayonnaise and chocolate is so perfect that it is hard to separate them. One thing you have to keep in mind is not to use strong flavored mayonnaise.
For Ganache frosting I used recipe from David Lebovitz site.
Here is the recipe of devil's food cake with chocolate ganache frosting. Give it a try you will love it.
Delicious and moist chocolate cake with rich chocolate ganache frosting, ultimate chocolate lovers dream.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups (187g) flour, sifted
- ¾ tsp. (4g) baking soda
- ¼ tsp. (1g) baking powder
- 1 cup+ 2 tablespoon (225g) sugar
- 1 teaspoon (2g) vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup (160g) mayonnaise
- ½ cup ( 50g) Unsweetened Natural Cocoa Powder, sifted
- ½ tsp. (2g) table salt
- ¾ cup (180g) water
- 5 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
- ¼ cup heavy whipping cream
- ¼+1/8 cup (¾stick) unsalted butter
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 375F, Line a 9 inch round pan and 4 inch loaf pan with parchment paper.
- In a standing mixer bowl fitted with the whisk attachment add eggs and beat at medium high speed.
- Adding sugar gradually. Beat until light and fluffy.
- Add the vanilla extract and mayonnaise and beat to combine.
- Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt together.
- Using a a rubber spatuaa, fold and stir the dry ingredients into the egg mixture in batches,
- alternating with the water and beginning and ending with the flour mixture.
- Scrape the batter into a pan and spread it out evenly.
- Give the pan a tap or two on the counter to release any air bubbles. Bake until a tester comes out clean about 18 minutes. Rotating the pan halfway through baking . Let cool.
- Run a knife around the edge of the pan to release the cake before turning it out.
- Melt the chopped chocolate , butter and the cream in a microwave heatproof bowl heat for 1 minutes at two 30 seconds intervals.
- After each 30 seconds remove the bowl from the microwave and mix very well,
- the ganache is smooth. Cool until spreadable, which may take about 1 hour at room temperature or refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- After removing the cake from the pan, tilt the cake and remove parchment paper and transfer to cake stand. Spread a good-sized layer of icing over the top.
- And sides with the remaining icing as decoratively as you can.
Notes
The Devils food cake is adapted from Dessert Fourplay and Chocolate ganache frosting is adapted fromDavid Lebovitz Copyright ©2015 Zesty South Indian Kitchen by Swathi(Ambujom Saraswathy) All Rights Reserved.
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
maha says
u knw,aftr baking cake,cant wait much,so hw can i bare until finsihing frost..every minute whole frsting fingers goes into mouth also..ehhehehe.Just fr fun
beautiful dear.Ur just perfect mommy,wife n chef..
Ritu Ahuja says
This cake looks soft and moist. Love it. Super delicious 🙂
Hema says
Very moist and delicious, and the frosting makes it more tempting..
padma says
oooh!!...This cake looks super moist and scrumptious swathi:)...I'm drooling:)
Winnie says
MםMouth-watering cake!!
Definitely my kind of kind - rich and moist 🙂
I absolutely loooooooooooove it
Sundari says
So moist and spongy!! love it!!
Rafeeda says
Just love the way it looks! Have baked with mayonnaise before and love the moistness it gives to bakes!
Subha says
I am in love with all your bakes..Looks so tempting and adding mayo makes it even more interesting..
Jeena says
Wow, what a fantastic cake. Looks super moist and yummmm...
sona says
cake looks so moist and soft.. Delicious cake..
Gloria says
Looks super delicious Swathi..I want a big slice...
Sathya @Mykitchenodyssey says
loved these chocolaty cake..def the moisest one.
savitha says
So moist cake Swathi.