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    THE ULTIMATE CHOCOLATE TREATS

    Feb 01, 2022 6 minutes
    COMPILED BY: JESSICA RANSOM

    Coffee chocolate layer cake with rose-scented ganache

    SERVES 12

    The flavours of the Middle East work gorgeously with cocoa. Here, cardamom-infused Turkish coffee and the fragrance of Turkish delight in an intense chocolate cake. The result is delicious.

    YOU WILL NEED

    250g plain flour
    1½tsp bicarbonate of soda
    ½tsp fine sea salt
    ½tsp finely ground cardamom seeds
    200g 70% dark chocolate, grated or blitzed in a food processor
    90g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
    120ml vegetable oil
    400g caster sugar
    4 eggs, lightly beaten
    2tsp vanilla extract
    240ml hot, strong espresso

    For the ganache:

    200g 70% dark chocolate, chopped
    250ml double cream
    20g caster sugar
    ½tsp rosewater

    For the coffee buttercream:

    150g unsalted butter, softened
    300g icing sugar, sifted
    1tbsp instant coffee granules dissolved in
    1tbsp boiling water
    Edible rose petals and/or crystallized rose petals, to decorate (optional)

    EQUIPMENT

    2x20cm round cake tins, greased and lined

    HOW TO DO IT

    1 Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Whisk the flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and cardamom together. Set aside.

    Melt the chocolate, butter and oil in a heat-proof bowl over a pan of boiling water.

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