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27 October 2010

Chocolate Enigma

a chocoholic, a chiffon lover...
please join me the matrimony with binding ingredients of these two, i announce the marriage of ChocoChiffon.
now, will you take my hand a slice, forgo the calories count & your waistline.
Cross your fingers and repeat after me.
"In token and pledge of our constant craving and abiding love,
with this cake, let us indulge... bon appetit!"



love is in the air. enjoy with a delicious cup of crema brewed coffee





Bitter Choc Chiffon with Choc-chips & Ganache

Ingredients:

(A) Valrhona Bitter chocolate 100g (chopped)
      corn oil 10ml

(B) 3 yolks
      sugar 20g
    
(C) water 40ml
    
(D) Cake flour 60g
      Valrhona cocoa powder 10g
      baking powder 1/2tsp
     
(E) 5 whites
      40g sugar

(F) choc-chips 2 1/2tbsp

Choc Ganache:
100g Whipping cream
100g Valrhona Bitter Choc

Method:
1. Sieve Cake flour with cocoa powder and baking powder. Put aside
2. Preheat oven to 170deg C
3. Double boil to melt (A). Stir till smooth
4. In another bowl, whisk (B) till pale in colour
5. Add in melted choc (A) mixture, add (C) stir till combine
6. Add in (D), fold till mixture well-mixed. follow by adding in the choc-chips(F).
7. In another bowl, whisk whites(E) till frothy, add sugar. Whisk till peak
8. Fold gently 1/3 whites with chocolate mixture
9. Fold the balance of whites
10. Pour batter into 7" cake pan
11. Baking time around 40mins
12. Insert skewer to check if cake is done
13. Overturn cake tin to cool cake
14. Unmould cake
15. Prepare choc ganache
16. Double boil whip cream till boiling
17. Add in choc cubes. Stir till choc melts
18. Pour ganache onto top of cool chiffon
19. Ready to serve!


Recipe reference & adapted from Chiffon Cake Book





23 comments:

  1. Look really wicked! Love your slice of dark chocolate cake :D

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  2. Awesome black pictures, and tempting chiffon, well done!

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  3. Wow, very chocolaty looking cake! Love the name too. ;) thanks for sharing this, I bet my chocolic family will love this. :)

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  4. now this is really sinful but then who cares! nice one jessie!

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  5. -drools- So chocolaty. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. looks really yummy! Not only love the black choco cake but the teaset :) What a perfect match!

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  7. Mmm...I can smell the dark chocolate and really makes drool... looks sooo good!

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  8. Oh my my, this chiffon looks sooooo sedap!!!! I am going to try it when exam fever over. Let's hope I have better luck this time coz in the past, not much success. Thanks.

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  9. I love chiffon, I love this one. Will like to try this, thanks for sharing :)

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  10. Lovely! Sure very yummy, really a perfect dessert for me as a chocolate lover :)

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  11. I am absolutely taken by the look of your chiffon. I've seen other chocolate chiffons, but none look as rich as yours. The best that I've seen and I'm definately bookmarking this.

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  12. The ganacha has made the whole chocolate chiffon so much better!

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  13. Your cake is so delicious looking... Mmmm, I like it ^_^

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  14. This is chocolate heaven!! Thanks for sharing this lovely recipe.

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  15. Oh my gawd! I like bitter chocolate and I like chiffon and you have combine them together. I h-e-a-r-t this chocolate enigma of yours :D

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  16. It looks so moist and sinfully dark - yum!

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  17. this looks sinfully rich chocolaty chiffon but I love it :)

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  18. I'm pretty sure I just gained 5 pounds looking at those pictures... DELICIOUS! This has been bookmarked!!!

    Great blog; happy I found you!

    Mary xo
    Delightful Bitefuls

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  19. Great name! Great combi! I'm drooling over your creation now. ;)

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  20. Just want to check with you, the choc chips (E) is added in after folding in the whites, right?
    I can't find it in the recipe

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  21. Wendy: thanks for highlighting the missing step. HTH :)

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  22. Wow! I'm totally attracted by this rich chocolate cake. Thanks for sharing the recipe. I'm gonna make one soon. May I know is the cake pan a normal round cake pan or chiffon tube pan?

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  23. Hi! Your cakes looks delicious! I'd like to make too!!! Come to visit my blog!!!

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