Home » Moist chocolate cake recipe | How to make chocolate cake with ganache

Moist chocolate cake recipe | How to make chocolate cake with ganache

Name: Chocolate cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 60 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Powdered Sugar; 1 cup All purrpose flour / Maida; ½ cup Cocoa powder; ½ tsp Salt; ½ tsp Baking powder; ½ tsp Baking soda; 2 Eggs; ¼ cup Butter or Oil (If you use oil, use flavorless oil like sunflower oil); ½ cup Milk (in room temparature); ½ cup Warm water; ½ cup Dark chocolate chips (You can choose chocolate chips as per your interest); ¼ cup Milk chocolate chips; ½ cup Boiling hot milk

6 min read

Moist chocolate cake along chocolate ganache recipe with step-by-step pictures and video on how to make moist chocolate cake at home.

I made this chocolate cake on this new year day, 2021. It came out perfect soft and moist. We all loved it very much. So, I thought I would share the recipe with you all too.

I have such chocolate addicted boy at home. He keeps asking me for chocolate. So, I decided to make this chocolate cake along with chocolate ganache cream at home.

This is one of the basic chocolate cake recipe. I hope that you will also like it. I used chocolate chips for making chocolate cream for glazing. If you prefer, you can include gelatin as well to make mirror glazing.

Moreover, I used more dark chocolate chips and less milk chocolate chips to adjust our taste need. You can choose any flavor of chocolate chips as per your choice.

First, I prepared cake batter and placed it in oven. While it is baking, I prepared the chocolate ganache. The same way, you can also plan your timing.

I request you to check out my baking recipes. You might like healthy Orange carrot cake and tutti-fruiti recipes.

Chocolate cake

The recipe for very basic moist chocolate cake with chocolate ganache

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 40

Resting time 10

Total Time 1

Course Dessert

Cuisine International

Ingredients

Ingredients For Cake

1 cup Powdered Sugar
1 cup All purrpose flour / Maida
½ cup Cocoa powder
½ tsp Salt
½ tsp Baking powder
½ tsp Baking soda
2 Eggs
¼ cup Butter or Oil If you use oil, use flavorless oil like sunflower oil
½ cup Milk in room temparature
½ cup Warm water

Ingredients to prepare Ganache

½ cup Dark chocolate chips You can choose chocolate chips as per your interest
¼ cup Milk chocolate chips
½ cup Boiling hot milk

Instructions

Prepare Chocolate cake

Preheat the oven for 180 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, add powdered sugar.
Sieve and then add flour and cocoa powder.
Add salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Whisk and combine all these dry ingredients.
Now add wet ingredients eggs, butter/oil, milk and whisk.
Add the warm water gradually and whisk until you get correct flowing batter consistency.
Apply some oil or butter in the cake tin and place parchment paper.
Pour the prepared batter in the cake tin.
Place the cake tin in oven and bake at 180 degree for 40 minutes.

Prepare Chocolate ganache

In a mixing bowl, add dark chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips and boiling hot milk.
Mix and melt the chocolate chips in milk.
You can heat it in double boiling method for couple of minutes or microwave to get the thick creamy consistency.
Turn off heat when it reaches creamy consistency and keep aside.

Glaze the chocolate cake

Take out cake after its fully baked. You can check by pricking it using a knife or toothpick. Let it cool for 10 minutes.
Then transfer the cake to a plate and remove the parchment paper.
Pour the chocolate ganache and level it up.
Refrigerate for an hour to set it.
Decorate it as you like. I have just topped it with the chocolate chips.
Slice and serve.