Gluten-Free Mocha Brownie Cake
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From: Lady Jennie
Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 12
- Cake:
- 1 cup almond flour
- ½ cup corn starch
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 4.5 oz (130 grams) semisweet chocolate
- 2.5 oz (70 grams) unsweetened chocolate
- ¾ stick or 3 oz (85 grams) unsalted butter
- 5 large eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons sour cream or crème fraîche
- Mocha Chocolate Ganache:
- 1¼ cups heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 12 oz (340 grams) semisweet chocolate
- ¼ cup brewed espresso
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C)
- Grease 3 cake pans and line the bottoms with wax paper. Flour the pans.
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler.
- Blend the almond powder, corn starch baking powder and salt.
- Mix eggs, vanilla, and sugar and beat for 5 minutes or so.
- Add the melted chocolate mixture and mix with the wet ingredients briefly.
- Add the flour mix and turn with a spatula til thoroughly mixed.
- Add the sour cream and mix in.
- Divide between 3 pans and bake each pan for 12 minutes.
- Cool each pan 10 minutes before inverting the cake onto a rack.
- Cool another 10 minutes or so and stack each cake between wax paper and put into fridge for an hour.
- Now the ganache:
- Bring cream, sugar and butter to a boil briefly.
- Break chocolate into bits and put in a bowl.
- Make espresso.
- Pour espresso and hot cream over chocolate and let it sit 5 minutes.
- Stir ganache and let it cool in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- Assembly:
- Place the first cake pan-side up in a springform pan. Pour a cup of ganache and spread with a spatula.
- Place the cake in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- Repeat process with the next layer.
- Place the remaining layer and remove the outside rim of the springform pan.
- Spread a cup of ganache over the top.
- Use a spatula to spread ganache all over the sides.
- Place the cake in the refrigerator until you are ready to eat it.
- When you cut the cake, you can dip the knife in hot water and wipe it in between cuts.
- Fall into a sugared caffeinated stupor.
Recipe by A Lady In France at https://aladyinfrance.com/gluten-free-mocha-brownie-cake/
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