Some few years ago, I was totally obsessed with Becky's Kitchen's moist chocolate cake. A friend introduced that devilish cake to me and it. was. DIVINE!!! Well, until I got fat. Hahaha!
Anyway, a couple of days back, I was watching Anna Olson making some pound cake, and I don't know why, but it reminded me of Becky's chocolate cake. Hashtag: THISISWHYIMFAT
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| Went overboard with the ganache though. Haha! |
Since I have no oven at the moment, I thought I'd try making a steamed chocolate cake instead. It kind of reminded me of a water bathed cake. Anyway, I'll be sharing with you my version of it.
For this you will need:
For the chocolate cake:
180 g cooled melted butter (or light oil, which in my case, I used canola oil)
185 g caster sugar
1/2 cup fresh milk
2 eggs
110 g flour (about 1 cup)
60 g unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tbsp granulated coffee
For the chocolate-caramel ganache glaze:
1 packed cup brown sugar
1/2 cup half-and-half
4 tbsp butter
1 pinch salt
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup mixture of bittersweet and milk chocolate
Procedure:
1. Heat up steamer before making the cake.
2. Line and grease a 9-inch pan.
3. This comes in two parts: (1) Mix milk, coffee, and sugar. Stir on low heat until sugar is dissolved. No need to boil. You only need to melt the sugar. Let the mixture cool to avoid the batter turning into a messy custard. (2) Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a large mixing bowl.
4. Once the coffee mixture is cooled, add the beaten eggs, vanilla and oil. Mix thoroughly.
5. Pour the mixture into the cocoa/flour and stir throughly.
6. Pour the batter into the lined pan. Fill until about half of the pan.
7. Place a cheesecloth over the steamer before covering it up with the lid and steam for about 30-45 minutes or until done. Use a toothpick to check if the cake is done.
8. Let it cool before decorating.
Now for the ganache...
1. I started off with making a caramel sauce first. To make this, combine sugar, half-and-half, salt and butter under low heat.
2. Cook while gently whisking it for about 5 minutes, until it thickens.
3. Add the vanilla. Let it cook for another minute until it thickens further. Take it off from heat and cool slightly.
4. Once cooled about lukewarm, add the chocolate.
7. Pour gently over chocolate cake.
So yea, that't about it. Pretty easy huh? Who needs an oven if you have a steamer?
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| Seeing double... One was eaten last night. The other, this afternoon. I might have to run this week to burn all the calories. Hahaha! |
I was able to make a couple of these last night and my husband, kids and I devoured an entire cake after dinner!
Happy eating. :)
