Decadent Chocolate Cream Layer Cake – 1 bowl, eggless, delicious, simple!

Eggless Chocolate Cream Layer Cake … Deep, moist & delicious, a treat for the chocolate lover in you! Simple desserts like this are most satisfying and are a great make ahead option. I love that you can make individual portions, dress them up in a jiffy and they’re ready to dig into. You probably have guessed that individual desserts are what I enjoy creating most! Throw in chocolate and I’m even more inspired!

This Eggless Chocolate Cream Layer Cake tastes like the good old days. A super quick one bowl eggless chocolate sponge moistened with Kahlua and smothered with a silky, smooth, luscious vanilla cream. The dessert is finished with a silky, decadent chocolate ganache that brings the flavours together beautifully. A light dusting of cocoa, a mini chocolate bar or two, an edible flower… what’s not to love!

There’s something comforting about old fashioned & simple chocolate desserts, where simple tastes good, where barely any effort offers the promise of happiness, where basic ingredients combine quite beautifully to satiate the senses. One spoon down and you’ll know what I’m talking about!

I’ve created a couple of similar desserts like this Chocolate Cream Layer Cake in different flavours. It’s always interesting to see how much you can pack in. Inspiration for desserts like these, often tres leches inspired ones, come from ingredients I might have in my pantry, flavours that I’m exploring, sometimes fruit in season. The possibilities are endless, the fascination never ends …

In fact while writing this blogpost, I was inspired again, motivated enough to wake up yesterday and make a similar version with a pistachio cream, pistachio being a specially favourite ingredient! I didn’t moisten the sponge but poured the pistachio cream over the warm, freshly baked cake & it worked perfectly. I cannot even begin to tell you how delicious that Eggless Chocolate Pistachio Layer Cake turned out, but for today this Chocolate Cream Layer Cake is it! That pistachio recipe will be for another day…

Do share a comment here on the blog if you make this, or any other recipe from PAB. I’d love to see it! Thank you for stopping by.

Eggless Chocolate Cream Layer Cake

Deep, moist & delicious, these individual layered desserts are an explosion of flavour, a treat for the chocolate lover in you!

Makes two 4" servings

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 45 minutes mins

1 hour hr

Total Time 2 hours hrs

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, British

Servings 2 people

Ingredients

  

Eggless chocolate sponge

• 55 g buttermilk
• 10 g oil
• 25 g castor sugar
• 1/8 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• Pinch salt
• 7 g cocoa powder
• 35 g all purpose flour maida
• 15 g Kahlua {or a strong shot of coffee}

Stabilized cream

• 250 g cream 25% fat
• 1.5 tbsp cornflour
• 1 tsp agar agar powder
• 2 tbsp castor sugar
• 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp clarified butter/ghee

Chocolate ganache

• 85 g cream 25% fat
• 60 g 54% couverture chocolate chopped

Instructions

 

Eggless chocolate sponge

• Preheat the oven to 170C.
• Place all the ingredients in a large bowl and whisk until smooth.
• Divide between two 4″ oven safe glass baking dishes.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes until done. Cool.
• Cool.

Stabilized cream

• Whisk together all the ingredients in a glass bowl.
• Microwave for 30 seconds, whisk again. Repeat until the cream begins to thicken at the edges, 3-4 times. Cool, whisking now and then to keep the cream uniform and to prevent a film from forming on top.
• Note: You can also make this on the stove top. Stir constantly.

Chocolate ganache

• Heat the cream and pour over the chocolate. Stand until the chocolate melts. Whisk until smooth.

Assemble

• Pour the Kahlua over the cooled sponge.
• Top the sponge with the cream filling and level out.
• Chill until the cream is firm, then gently pour over the chocolate ganache to cover the layer. Refrigerate until the ganache is firm.
• Dust over with cocoa powder.

Video

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cubs-4ZPCKr/

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