My little sister is graduating college and her party is next weekend. She asked me to make a cake for her and I couldn’t say no. So I decided to do a test batch this week to make sure I like the recipe (she asked for yellow cake with chocolate icing). I naturally can’t just buy cake in a box, so I’m going to make yellow cake with dark chocolate ganache with raspberries.
Ingredients for cake (this makes enough for 2 9-inch cake pans):
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 2 ½ cups white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups buttermilk
- 3 ¾ cups cake flour (you can use all-purpose flour as a substitute)
- 2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- Cooking spray
Ingredients for ganache:
- 16 ounces chocolate, finely chopped (I used dark chocolate)
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
This is a double layer cake, so I also needed icing for in between the two layers. You can just buy chocolate icing in the store and use that, but I only want to deliver the best for the little sister.
Ingredients for chocolate frosting:
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 stick of unsalted butter, cut into ½ inch pieces
- 1/3 cup sugar
- ¼ cup water
- 2 teaspoons instant espresso powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 16 oz chocolate, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
