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2 Jan 2014

How to make Ganache

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Ganache is the silky soft chocolate cream you find on cakes as a filling or as a frosting. It is what makes a chocolate cake more sinful and delicious, making you want to lick it off!

It is basically made by mixing cream with chocolate. It is very simple to make once you know the basics and ratio of chocolate to cream. Generally, the higher the cocoa butter in the chocolate ( the darker it is), the less cream you will need. So for dark chocolate ganache the ratio will be 2:1 - twice as much chocolate to cream. For milk chocolate - 2.5:1 (chocolate to cream), for white chocolate 3.5:1 ratio is used. It also depends on the type of chocolate you are using. Generally ganache is made with dark / semi sweet or bittersweet chocolate but you can make it with milk chocolate too.

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Salted Caramel Ganache

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I love to frost my cakes with ganache and I frost most of my cakes with chocolate ganache or whipped cream. These are my favourite frostings. I like adding different flavors to the ganache, which makes the ganache taste even better! I have posted an easy to make nutella ganache which also tastes absolutely yum!
Salted Caramel can be added to anything you bake or on ice creams and desserts and it tastes so good. Adding it to ganache just took it to a totally different level! I'm not a great fan of salted caramel but even I loved this ganache!

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Nutella Ganache

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I have been trying to loose some weight and a bottle of nutella has been staring at me for so long! I have tried to resist it for far too long and then one day when I baked a cake for my daughter's friend's family, I wanted to use up this nutella simply because I won't have it lying around! That turned out to be such a brilliant idea!

My most favorite frosting is ganache, I frost most of my cakes and cupcakes with ganache. I have also written a detailed post on how to make ganache. Adding nutella to the ganache, made an already yummy ganache, even more irresistible!

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Honeycomb Frosting | Honeycomb Cake

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I want to share a simple frosting technique for a celebration cake that I make often, which will look lovely on the finished cake. This is so easy to do and at the end you have a beautifully frosted cake! I do this quite often when I run out of time to do something elaborate. Plus, it hides all my flaws in frosting, so I love this trick!!

I first came across this method some years ago at Alexandra's Recipes and I immediately wanted to try this frosting. Now it's become very famous and you can find it all over the internet.
There are two ways to make this honeycomb frosting and I follow the method given by Alexandra and it's easy and simple. There is another way to do this (which I've mentioned in the notes), I find that to be a little complicated so this is how I do my honeycomb frosting.

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Lamingtons

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Lamingtons are nothing but square vanilla sponge cake dipped in chocolate and rolled in dessicated coconut. These lamingtons originated in Australia. It is believed to be named after Lord Lamington who was the Governor of Queensland.

I have always wanted to make a lamington cake and I finally made it and it tasted absolutely delicious! Everybody who had it simply fell in love with the cake! The vanilla cake, chocolate frosting and the coconut was just perfect! You've got to taste it to believe how good this is!! My next agenda is to make Pink Lamingtons!!

Today marks the 4th anniversary of my blog! What better way to celebrate than with my favorite lamingtons! I thank God for helping me through and through and for blessing this blog and making it a blessing to many! A big thank you to all who read the blog and leave comments!

Here's what I posted on my previous blog anniversaries!
1st blog anniversary - How to make a Doll Cake.
2nd blog anniversary - Strawberry Chocolate Chip Loaf.
3rd blog anniversary - Neapolitan Cake.

You can choose any vanilla cake for this recipe. Make sure you bake it in a square pan. I made these lamingtons with this Best Butter Cake recipe. Or you can chose from one of these vanilla cake recipes. You can make these lamingtons with an egg free vanilla cake as well. You can also fill this cake with cream or jam before covering it with chocolate.

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Chocolate Truffle Cake | Truffle Cake Recipe | How to make a Rich Chocolate Truffle Cake

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Chocolate Truffle Cake | Truffle Cake Recipe | How to make a Rich Chocolate Truffle Cake - In this recipe, we will see how to make an exotic, soft, moist, delicious chocolate truffle cake. This cake tastes better than a store bought truffle cake.

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How to make number 4 birthday cake

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For my son's 4th birthday, I decided to make a number cake. Number 4 is very easy to make, as it has only straight lines however I did wonder how to frost it and make it special, finally decided on a simple ganache and cadbury shots since my son loves shots.

We also had 2 other parties for him and I made the anti-gravity cake and double chocolate cake for those other parties. Over all, it was a fun birthday and he enjoyed every bit of it! I have made the same anti gravity cake and double chocolate cake for his previous birthdays, he loves it so much that I repeated it again for his 4th birthday as well!

Check out the Garbage Truck Cake that I made for his 3rd birthday.

To make number 4, I made 3 of my favorite chocolate loaf cake - the Quadruple Chocolate Loaf and went about cutting and stacking it. It turned out to be very simple and easy to make!

I started baking the cakes two days ahead. With small kids around, I had to plan ahead and bake the cakes so that I don't get stressed about organizing the party.

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Eggless Chocolate Mousse with Ganache

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I have already posted an eggless chocolate mousse recipe. But this recipe is by far my favorite, it tastes absolutely delicious! Nothing can come close to the taste of this mousse! Whenever I have left over cream and ganache, I make this mousse. I made these for a large family get together with some of my husband's friends and everybody loved this mousse. I was getting compliments even the next day! I made these mousse and vanilla cupcakes and both were a huge success!

Even my fussy picky kids loved it! As I was piping the mousse into these cups, my kids finished two! And the icing on the cake was, that night we went out to have some dessert and we ordered a mousse for my kids and they had one spoonful and kept it back saying "mamma, we love your mousse better, we will have that once we get back home!" If my kids gave that approval, then you must know this tastes really good!
Since I was carrying these with me to another destination, I used these paper cups. I cling wrapped it and it was convenient to carry with me.

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No Fondant Chess Board Cake | Easy and Simple Chess Cake | Checkerboard Cake

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No Fondant Chess Board Cake | Easy and Simple Chess Cake | How to make a Chess Board Cake - In this post, we will see how to make a simple chess board cake without fondant. I made this cake for my husband's birthday, he is a chess freak and so is my son so they both were super excited with this cake!

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Ferrero Rocher Cake | How to make a Ferrero Rocher Cake

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Ferrero Rocher Cake | How to make a Ferrero Rocher Cake - In this post, we will see how to make a tasty and delicious ferrero rocher cake. This cake has a nutty flavor and tastes just like the ferrero rocher chocolate.

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No Fondant Dinosaur Cake | How to make a Simple Dinosaur Cake | Jurassic Park Cake

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No Fondant Dinosaur Cake | How to make a Simple Dinosaur Cake | Jurassic Park Cake | Birthday Cake - In this recipe, we will see how to make a simple easy dinosaur cake without fondant.

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Eggless Chocolate Mousse Cake

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It was that time of the year again when I become a 2 day celebrity in my home and everybody fusses over me! It was my birthday again!! It's the same thing every year but I must say I enjoy every bit of the fussing!

So every year I bake my own birthday cake and I get to bake whatever I want. Last year I made the Eggless No Bake Chocolate Chilli Cheesecake and this year I chose a simple Chocolate Mousse Cake! Oh how sinfully delicious this cake turned out to be! Mousse cakes are always a delight, I love my Eggless Mango Mousse Cake & Eggless Strawberry Mousse Cake.

The speciality of this cake is that I have not used any setting agents to make this cake. I know a lot of people don't want to use gelatin or agar agar and this works well. The cake as usual is one of my most favourites, the egg free dairy free chocolate cake and tastes absolutely delightful! And for the mouse I used my recipe chocolate mousse with ganache. Do make this cake and enjoy!

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Best Ever Chocolate Cake Recipe

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This is one of the very best chocolate cakes you will ever taste! With every bite, the flavor just explodes in your mouth, taking you on a short trip to chocolate heaven! (yes, there is a chocolate heaven! If you love chocolates as much as I do, you will know where it is!)
The whipped cream frosting and the chocolate ganache added to the flavor. The richness of the chocolate cake and the silky smooth ganache and the soft airy whipped cream, turned out to be a yummy combination! This is THE best chocolate cake ever!

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How to make a Castle Cake

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For my daughter's 7th birthday, she wanted a castle cake, she told me well in advance that she wanted a castle cake so I had plenty of time to think how to build this cake. I don't work with fondant so I had to make a castle without any fondant accents. I went through many images on google and worked out an image that worked well for me. I drew out a simple castle cake design, one that will be easy to make and simple to build.

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Double Chocolate Cake

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On this 1st day of the new year, I wish all my lovely readers, a very Happy and Blessed New Year!! Lots to be celebrated in the month of December so lots of baking to be done and that makes me very happy!!

I baked this cake first for my son's 1st birthday and then I made it again for his 4th birthday. This is a deep rich cake which we all loved. I adapted the chocolate cake recipe from here and the cake tasted absolutely wonderful. Every bite was filled with rich chocolate goodness. It's the next day today as write and I am enjoying another slice of this gorgeous beauty!

I tweaked the recipe a bit. I don't like using butter in chocolate cakes. Using oil makes the cake so moist and it stays moist. The general rule is, when you're replacing butter with oil, for every 1 cup of butter, you use 7/8th cup of oil. You can use butter if you prefer it. I also added coffee powder. I add coffee for all chocolate recipes. Just a bit of coffee takes the chocolate flavor to a whole new level. If you don't want to add, just leave it out. This recipe is definitely a keeper!

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Chocolate Truffle Cake

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I made this cake when my nieces were visiting. They live in another city and love chocolate, they have been drooling over all my baked goodies since the time I started my blog. So I decided to indulge them by baking this super fudgy chocolate cake. And they were not disappointed!

This cake is so fudgy since it uses only melted chocolate and not cocoa powder. We loved the flavor of this cake, every bite was so rich and chocolaty!
I again frosted this cake with ganache and whipped cream as in my other cake The Best Chocolate Cake Ever. This combination never fails.

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Eggless Marble Cupcakes

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I participated in a bake sale in my husband's office and I was pretty thrilled since this was my first bale sale. I was asked to bake some marble cakes but my husband felt cupcakes would be better than cakes so I made these cupcakes and they were well received and was sold off very quickly! I frosted these cupcakes with ganache and these cuppies turned out to be so delicious, so yum!

There are some other marble cakes that I have already posted, chocolate and vanilla marble cake (with eggs) and an eggless chocolate and mango marble cake and a Zebra Cake.

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Eggless Chocolate Cake Recipe | Vegan Chocolate Cake | Dairy Free Chocolate Cake

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Eggless Chocolate Cake Recipe | Vegan Chocolate Cake | Dairy Free Chocolate Cake - In this recipe, we will see how to make an eggless chocolate cake that is super moist and tasty.

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No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake | Cheesecake without Cream Cheese | Indian Cheesecake in Blender

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No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake | Cheesecake without Cream Cheese | Indian Cheesecake in Blender - In this post, we will see how to make an easy chocolate cheesecake. This entire recipe is made in a blender and uses the simplest of ingredients.

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Bento Cakes | Mini Lunch Box Cakes | Korean Lunch Box Cake Recipe

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Bento Cakes | Mini Lunch Box Cakes | Korean Lunch Box Cake Recipe - In this post, we will see how to make Korean mini cakes, around 3 inches in diameter that fits neatly inside take out boxes. These cakes are perfect for gifting.