KitKat Cake | Hot water chocolate cake with chocolate ganache frosting cake

This is a chocolate flavored cake covered with coffee flavored chocolate ganache. Then lined the cake with kitkat candies bar and top it off with some colorful candies. Kids and myself enjoyed making the cake and it was wonderful in taste.  

Ingredients : 

All purpose flour - 2 1/2 cups

Cocoa powder- 1 cup

Baking powder - 2 tsp

Baking soda - 2 tsp

Sugar - 2 cups

Eggs - 3

Oil - 3/4 cup

Milk - 1 1/2 cups

Vanilla extract - 1 tablespoon

Hot water - 1 1/2 cups

Chocolate Ganache ingredients : 

Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips - 1 cup

Heavy Whipping Cream - 1 cup

Instant coffee powder - 1 tsp 

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

 

Chocolate Frosting ingredients: 

Chocolate Ganache

Heavy Whipping cream - 1 cup

Vanilla extract - 1 tablespoon

 

Cake Decorating ingredients: 

KitKat

Colorful candies ( M&M, white chocolate chips, chocolate sprinkles, chocolate covered almonds)

Pirouline cookies

Ribbon to tie around

 

Procedure : 

Preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit

1. Sieve together the following dry ingredients: 2 1/2 cups of flour, 1 cup cocoa powder, 2 teaspoon of baking powder, 2 teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of salt.

2. In a stand mixer add 2 cups of sugar,3 large eggs and mix well.

3. Now add 3/4 cup oil and mix well in slow speed.

4. Next add 1 1/2 cups of milk and 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

5. Now slowly add the shifted dry ingredients to the mixer

6. Lastly add 1 1/2 cups of hot water and mix well

7. Pour the batter to prepared cake pans. Bake it for 35 mins or until the toothpick inserted comes out clean

8. Once cooled remove from cake pan and trim to level the top

Coffee flavored chocolate ganache: 

1. Heat 1 cup of heavy cream. Cream must just start to boil.

2. Strain the hot cream into 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips and mix well till smooth

3. Add 1 tsp of vanilla and 1 tsp of instant coffee powder and mix well

4. Cover and refrigerate for 10 mins

Chocolate Frosting ingredients: 

1. Whip 1 cup cold  heavy whipping cream until soft peaks formed

2. Pour chocolate ganache and whip till well mixed

3. Fill the cream in piping bag

Assemble and ice the cake

Decorate the cake with KitKat and candies

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