Chocolate Cake at Midnight (with Coffee Cream)

Serves 10-12 Prep Time 5 minutes   Cook Time 25 minutes   Rated:
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This decadent fudgey cake is so easy to make that is a great family cake. BUT, it is also beautiful enough for a special occasion. Dress it up! Or not

I have been a fan of Samin Nosrat for sometime now and I have eagerly watched her Salt Fat Acid Heat series and purchased the book by the same name as well. I love a good solid technique book as it helps my recipe development in ways I cannot begin to explain in a paragraph! So as I was looking through this book the other day, I spied this recipe, and as it was a Tuesday and there was no cake in the house...I thought it was time! Midnight? I hear you asking?

No, I didn't make it at midnight, but I may have eaten some of it at midnight. Originally called Chocolate Midnight Cake, it is entirely appropriate that it is eaten in the middle of the night, don't you agree? If you haven't discovered the perfect chocolate cake that is easy to whip up, then this is that recipe. The other thing I did was use my amazing Cobram Vanilla infused EVOO. I mean...it was the perfect oil for this cake. But by all means, use regular EVOO if you cannot source the vanilla version. Still yum. Still moist. Still very midnight!

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1  

Preheat oven to 180°C and line and butter two 9 inch round cake tins. Set aside.

2  

Place coco, sugar, salt, flour, bicarb, baking soda into the Thermomix bowl and whiz 10 sec/speed 10. Remove from bowl and set aside.

3  

Place EVOO, vanilla, water and coffee into the Thermomix bowl and blend 10 sec/speed 6. (Be careful as you are dealing with hot water!)

4  

Add 1/3 of the dry mix and blend 4 sec/speed 4.

5  

Repeat with each remaining 1/3 of the dry mix.

6  

Add eggs and blend 5 sec/speed 4.

7  

Divide mixture between the two prepared tins and bake in the top 1/3 of the oven for 25 minutes.

8  

Cool on a wire rack before removing from tins. When cold you may assemble with the whipped cream.

9  

To make the cream, place all ingredients into a clean, dry Thermomix bowl and insert Butterfly. Whip 20-30 sec/Butterfly/speed 4 or until stiff peaks are formed.

10  

Place a dab of cream onto the serving plate you plan on using and place the bottom layer of cake on top. Spread with half of the Coffee Cream, just in the centre. Top with the other cake and press down until you can see the cream reaching the edges of the cake.

11  

Spread all remaining cream onto the top layer and swirl until you are happy. Dust with plenty of dark cocoa powder to taste and serve with or without raspberries to taste.

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Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once! 

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