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Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

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Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

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Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Do you believe that some recipes crawl up to you and beg you and motivate you and beat you up till you get up and get ready to make them? Nah? Well I just made it up. 😂 But truth to be told, it happened to me this time.

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Angie of Fiesta Friday had posted this gorgeous Clementine Chocolate Cake last week which made me drool big time and I bookmarked it. She said few ingredients and easy and I could hear the sweet bells ringing in my ears 😀.

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Then the other day, I was watching Melissa D’Arabian of Meals under $10 fame, on the Food Network and man…she was also baking the similar cake – Yellow cake with Chocolate Ganache. She said, it is the must have recipe since it is so simple and easy. I was totally sold again…..within a week’s time..😱

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Now you see the conspiracy of the cakes that begged me to bake them? Am I making sense here? Well! Ha! Never mind!

Anyways…don’t these look super cute? Like baked for the perfect tea party for little pixies and elves and like the ones that Tinker bell and the gang would feast on? I know..I am getting carried away. But they turned out super moist, delicious and super duper cute! My girls just loved these. They were so good that I ate one for my lunch…yes…just this for my lunch. I ate like a child and licked my spoon clean till the last bite. I think it will make a decent cake for your valentine too.

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache
Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Basic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache

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Serves: 4 baby cakes
 
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Kitchen Equipments Required – 2 big mixing bowls, electric beater, fork, microwave safe bowl, 4 small ramekins or oven safe dishes, a spoon, measuring cups and spoons.
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Ingredients
Cake Ingredients
  • Butter - ½ cup or 1 stick at room temperature
  • Sugar - ½ cup, fine
  • Eggs - 2, at room temperature (see the notes for egg free solution)
  • Milk - ¼ cup
  • Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
  • Refined flour - 1 cup
  • Baking powder - 1 tsp
  • Salt - ¼ tsp
Ganache Ingredients
  • Bitter sweet chocolate chips - ¼ cup
  • Heavy cream - ¼ cup
Instructions
Baking the Cake
  1. Preheat the oven at 350*F. Grease 4 ramekins generously with butter from all the sides.
  2. Take a bowl and add flour, baking powder and salt to it. Stir with a fork and set aside.
  3. Take a deep and big bowl. Add butter and sugar to it. Beat at high speed with an electric egg beater till it becomes soft and fluffy, for about 3-4 minutes.
  4. Add one egg at a time and keep beating the mix at the medium speed, till fluffy and pale in color, for about 3 minutes. Add vanilla essence and mix.
  5. Now add half of the flour mix to the wet ingredients. Stir and gently fold in with a fork or stirring spoon or using the egg beater at the lowest speed.
  6. Add rest of the flour mix to the bowl. Beat in at the low speed till it is well incorporated.
  7. Finally add the milk or cream and mix well.
  8. Divide this batter equally into 4 ramekins. Tap them a bit to level out the batter.
  9. Place them on a baking sheet and bake for about 25-30 minutes. Do the toothpick test. If the toothpick comes out clean. it is ready. I like my toothpick to come out with little crumbs for moister cake.
  10. Let them rest for 5-7 minutes. Then take them out on a cooling rack to cool down before you drizzle the ganache on top.
Ganache
  1. Heat choco chips and cream in a microwave safe bowl for 30 seconds. Take out the bowl and whisk the chocolate and cream together with a fork till ganche becomes glossy and smooth. It is ready. Let it cool down a bit before pouring over the cakes.
Serving Suggestion
  1. Place the baby cake on a serving plate. Drizzle 2 tbsp of ganache or more so that top is covered. Decorate with sliced strawberries or the fruit of your choice.
Notes
  1. You may use 1 big old mushy banana instead of eggs for egg free cake. Just mash it and add in place of eggs. Beat till sugar and butter till smooth and fluffy.
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I had a great time creating this cake in my Indian American Kitchen. Do give it a try in your kitchen and keep me posted.

Taking these babies to share with awesome crowd at Fiesta Friday and Throwback Thursdays !

Sonal

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  6. Rafeeda - The Big Sweet Tooth

    I really get what you mean… and I find cooking shows to be really tempting! Watching them at times really pushes you especially if the recipe is easy and the end result looks tempting… I like the idea of baking it in individual ramekins and serving them with that luscious ganache, just makes me want to eat them off screen!

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  11. BhawanaSingh

    This moist cake with chocolate ganache looks so drooling and tempting. I really want this to have now and wishing if it could have come out of the screen. U have taken beautiful clicks as well.

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  12. Vidya Narayan

    That is a gorgeous bake with a silky ganache on top. I bet these will be a huge hit this Valentines. Firstly they are cute cuppies so easy to gift too and I totally get why you had these for lunch.. so delicious looking, how can anyone resist?

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  19. FrugalHausfrau

    I think I just had a pang of jealousy that you had one of these for lunch and I didn’t!! I love the way you took the basic recipe and dressed it up so beautifully. Thanks for sharing this with us on Throwback Thursday! Hope to see you next week!

    Mollie

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  33. Kathryn

    Hahaha, I would totally eat this for lunch too! And I see why it was calling your name… this looks absolutely amazing and that it’s easy, too? Oh yes, I’ll be making these soon for all of us to enjoy! Pinned!

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  35. Jhuls

    You’re getting creative and creative everyday and your photos are getting me hungrier and hungrier, too! 😀 This cake looks absolutely gorgeous and sounds divine!! Happy FF, Sonal.

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  38. Bhumika

    Hi sonal, how much grams of butter have you used in this recipe as cup measures are different from us to other countries, i don’t have proper cake mixers which comes with big bowl… But i do have an electric bitter. Would that be ok?
    Thanks

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  44. Swati

    Wow..loved everything about this cake, the write up, pictures and the recipe. I just now opened my inbox and found this new post of yours…since yesterday I was waiting for you to update it….too simple and easy. Bookmaking it!

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  45. AngieAngie

    Nice, Sonal!! I love the addition of strawberries. Would be perfect for Valentine’s Day. Wasn’t it easy and quick? Told ya! Thanks for linking, too. You’re a doll! 🙂

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