Allow the cake to cool completely before adding the cream icing.
Pour the ganache over the cream icing and place in the fridge to set.
Bacon & Beer Chocolate Cake With Vanilla Cream
Ingredients
- 200g Eskort Minced Bacon
- 1 cup dark ale beer
- 1 cup butter
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 2 cups castor sugar
- ½ cup nkomazi
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tbs vanilla
- 2 cups cake flour
- 2 ½ tsp baking powder
- Vanilla cream:
- 1 cup mascarpone cheese
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- seeds from one vanilla pod (optional)
- Chocolate ganache:
- 1 ½ cup dark chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup cream
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Heat a large saucepan over high heat and fry the bacon until it is crispy.
- Lower the heat, add beer and butter and stir until the butter has melted.
- Whisk in the cocoa and sugar and remove from the heat.
- Beat the nkomazi, eggs and vanilla together and add to the beer in the saucepan.
- Whisk in the flour and baking powder.
- Pour the cake batter into a greased cake pan and bake for 45 minutes.
- Vanilla cream:
- Place all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and whip with an electric mixer until stiff.
- Chocolate ganache:
- Heat the cream in a small saucepan over a medium heat until it starts to steam.
- Pour the hot cream over the chocolate in a medium sized bowl and stir until the chocolate has melted.
Serve
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