Receta Chocolate Ganache and Blackberry Cake - Charlotte Ree's recipe
Celebrate your birthday today. Celebrate being happy every day.
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On Tuesday, my blog quietly turned 13 years old. It's hard to believe that I started this blog so long ago. I spent a good couple of years reading other people's blogs before I decided that I could so it too, and jumped in. And here I still am, though much less frequently, as I have found Instagram a much quicker and easier way to share my cooking adventures.
I think the fact that I am still blogging is an occasion worth celebrating, so I will do so in the time honoured fashion of sharing a cake.
This cake is Chocolate Ganache and Blackberry Cake, and fittingly, I discovered the recipe on my new favourite medium, Instagram. It was posted by Charlotte Ree, an Australian baker who has published a cookbook fittingly called Just Desserts.
Despite looking ultra-chocolatey, this cake is flavoured with cocoa rather than chocolate. The chocolate ganache and the blackberries are decorations on the cake rather than being ingredients.
I was particularly drawn to this cake because Charlotte had baked her version in the same Nordic Ware bundt tin that I had bought just before the lockdown started. I hadn't had a chance to use it because one person does not need a whole bundt cake, but I had visitors coming for the first time in weeks on the weekend that I made it, so there was an excuse to make a whole cake. And it certainly was a beauty of a cake, inside and out:
I also shared this cake with my downstairs neighbours, who told me not once but twice how much they enjoyed it. Now there's a ringing endorsement.
You can find the recipe for this cake in Charlotte's book, on her Instagram site, or online here. Go on, make it - I know you want to!
On that note, happy bloggiversary to Laws of the Kitchen.