Oliver's Super Chocolate Cake
Oliver Gibbon, 12, From Andover, Hampshire shares his wonderful cake recipe... This recipe is so wonderful, that it is almost guaranteed to make your toes curl. Note: As you are spending quite a bit of time and energy into making this wonderful cake try to use only top-quality ingredients. It will make all the difference. --This recipe takes 1 Hour, and 50 minutes to make.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 9 of 11 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Yogurt | 170g plain Greek | 100 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Hazelnut | not in our table | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- --Hazelnut--Butter--
- 8 oz hazelnuts
- 4 tablespoons butter, softened
- ---Cake---
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, broken into 1/2-ounce pieces
- 4 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup plus 1 teaspoon cake flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup plus 4 tablespoons, packed light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup water
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- ---Ganache---
- 1-3/4 cups heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 14 ounces semisweet chocolate, broken into 1/2-ounce pieces