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Grandma Chocolate Cake

Serving Size - 15
Prepared By - Ellice & Monty
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SPONGE CAKE:
9 oz Cake flour / bread flour
13 oz Sugar
1 tsp. Salt
1 oz Baking soda
8 oz Water
2 oz Cocoa powder
8 oz Buttermilk
5 oz Vegetable oil
3 Whole eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
CHOCOLATE ICING:
10 oz Butter melted
4 oz chocolate couverture 58 %
2 oz chocolate couverture 74 %
14 oz Powder sugar
9 oz Sour cream
Dulce De Leche

SPONGE CAKE: - Bring water to a boil, turn off and the cocoa powder, stir until thick, then set aside to cool in the fridge. Put the dry ingredients in mixer with paddle attachment. Mix until well incorporated Add liquids all at once to the dry while mixing, scrape well. Mix for 2 minutes, scrape well. Add the chocolate mixture. scrape. Mix to combine about 30 seconds Pour 2 inch of the mixture into 9 inch greased flour dusted pan ring Bake at 350 F for at least 40 minutes. CHOCOLATE ICING: - Melt both chocolate and butter in medium bowl over warm bath water at 110 F Add the sifted powdered sugar and whisk Add the sour cream and whisk until you get a nice achieved emulsion Allow icing to cool and set covered with plastic wrap at room temperature CAKE ASSEMBLY: Slice the cake in 3 layers horizontally with the same thickness. In a 9 inch ring, place the first layer of chocolate sponge pipe with a plain tube the Chocolate Icing closed to the ring. Spread the Dulce de Leche on inch 1/4 inch thick inside. Add 1 more layer of chocolate sponge, repeat the operation with the Chocolate Icing and Dulce de Leche and cover with the last chocolate sponge. Spread a fine layer of Chocolate Icing and chill in the cooler. Remove the ring and spread a thin layer of Chocolate Icing all over the cake. Cool it down until it sets, sliced into 18 portions and place on serving plate.