How to Make a Chocolate Ganache Cake

How to Make a Chocolate Ganache Cake

Making Chocolate Cake

Making Chocolate Cake

Making Simple Syrup and Ganache

Making Simple Syrup and Ganache

Making Buttercream Icing

Making Buttercream Icing

Putting the Cake Together

Putting the Cake Together

How to Decorate a Cake

How to Decorate a Cake

How to Make a Chocolate Ganache Cake

How to Make a Chocolate Ganache Cake

How To Make Healthy Blueberry Muffins

How To Make Healthy Blueberry Muffins

How To Make Chocolate Banana Nut Bread

How To Make Chocolate Banana Nut Bread

How To Make French Bread Loaves

How To Make French Bread Loaves

How To Make Naan Flat Bread

How To Make Naan Flat Bread

How To Make Apple Pie

How To Make Apple Pie

How To Make A Red Wine & Strawberry Dessert

How To Make A Red Wine & Strawberry Dessert

How To Make Almond Baklava

How To Make Almond Baklava

How To Make Chocolate Silk Pie

How To Make Chocolate Silk Pie

How To Make Rich No Bake Cheesecake

How To Make Rich No Bake Cheesecake

How To Make Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzels

How To Make Auntie Anne's Soft Pretzels

How To Make Simple Irish Soda Bread

How To Make Simple Irish Soda Bread

How To Make Three Hot Chocolate Drinks

How To Make Three Hot Chocolate Drinks

View more ...

Randi Goldman

How to make a Chocolate Ganache Cake, Something Extra Cakery

www.somethingextracakery.com  

301-921-9194

A self-taught pastry chef, baker, and cake decorator, Randi Goldman has been in the food service industry for over 30 years, starting with opening her own catering business at the age of 12.  In 1986, Randi started her own business, Something Extra Cakery, in Gaithersburg, MD. Her cakes are baked fresh from scratch and decorated with Swiss buttercream or fondant icing. All intricate art work is done in-house including hand-made sugar flowers.  In January 2008 she bought Creative Cakes, Inc. in Silver Spring, MD. Goldman has received great recognition in The Gaithersburg Gazette, Montgomery Journal, Potomac Almanac, and The Jewish Week.  In 2000, she appeared on The Producer's Notebook from January through April.  In 2001, she ws the resident expert on WMAL's The David Burd Show.  In 2003 she was a guest on The Wedding Show with Sharon Lewis, and in June 2006, she was featured in Frederick Magazine.  What makes Randi and her business so unique is her passion for making beautiful, mouth-watering desserts.

How to Decorate a Cake

Randi Goldman of Something Extra Cakery demonstrates how to make a Chocolate Cake with ganache filling and butter cream icing including how to decorate the cake.

Print

How to Decorate a Cake

Ingredients

Chocolate cake:
4 ounces of room temperature butter
2 ounces of dutch processed cocoa
1 cup of granulated sugar
4 egg whites
3/4 cup of granulated sugar
11 ounces of cake flour thats sifted
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
11 ounces of water
2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
Simple Syrup:
Equal parts sugar and water
Ganache:
10 ounces of heavy whipping cream
15 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate
2 ounces of butter

Instructions

1. Put the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl to cream them. Add a small amount of flour and blend. Continue to alternate water and flour and mix well. Add the cocoa.


2. To make the meringue, put four egg whites in a separate bowl. Add sugar and whisk together. Add cream of tartar when the egg whites look frothy.


3. Pour the chocolate batter in the meringue, a little bit at a time. Place the batter in 8 inch cake pans. Preset the oven to 325 degrees and cook for 30 minutes.


4. To make a simple syrup, boil sugar and water on the stove. Let it cool and cover it with plastic wrap. Add vanilla before you brush it onto the cake.


5. To make ganache, add heavy whipping cream, semi-sweet chocolate and butter to a pot on the stove at medium to high heat. Let it cool and cover it with plastic wrap. 


6. Remove the cakes from the oven. Cut about two inches into both and brush the syrup over the cake. Put the ganache filling between the layers. Frost the cake with butter cream icing and decorate it.

 

Print

Transcripts

Randi Goldman: Hi, I am Randi. Today we are going to make a Chocolate Cake. Now we are going to put the final decorations on our cake. We have already put our crumb coat and our final coat using our cake decorating comb on the sides and smoothing out the top. I have in my pastry bag already to go tip number 21 it's a simple star tip, we are going to make a star border on the top and the bottom and then a simple floral spray. Now always want to make sure that you have planned your design out in your mind. So you know where you want to put the message and the design. I always like to put my borders on first, so I know how much room I have to work with. Again just like the spatula and icing our cake, I want to make sure that the tip and the bag is right in front of us so we can see what we are doing. If we are using the bag over here we can't watch our hands. Make sure the tip is always clean, we are holding it out at a 45 degree angle. We are letting the tip and the icing do all the work. Gently squeezing out a little bit of icing, we want to see the little tails at the back end of the shelf border. I like to use the same color for my icing and my borders. You can also put nuts around the side if you want. So the next thing we are going to do is show how to make a Rose. Take our flower nail, our pink icing is already in the bag with a tip number 104, we are going to make a small base with the icing, clean off the tip and then we make our petals. We are doing three rows of petals. Because I am using the same butter cream icing, if it gets soft we can put it in refrigerator to firm up and I can have the flowers already to go like I do here. We step this aside, one of the little tricks, we can take our spatula, set it aside on top of a bowl. So now I am going to take and write our message, we are going to say Happy Birthday. I would like to print. Don't forget to dot your eyes and cross your tees.

Next we are going to do floral spray. I am using the green icing with the tip number 2. Okay and you want to make sure you have planned your design in your mind. So you know where you want your spray in your flowers to go. I am making small little stems to put my rose buds, and a mound of icing in the middle for the flowers. So next we are going to take our 104 tip with the pink icing, make a rose bud. Always clean off the tip. Don't forget your sepals and calyxes with your green icing. Then next we are going to add our roses and then our leaves. And then we have our completed decorated cake. So I pick out my three favorite flowers, we are going to put them at an angle to the mound of icing. These flowers have been sitting in the cooler, so nice and firm. And then I am going to take a tip number 352 and make our leaves. And there we have our completed, decorated Chocolate Cake with Ganache filling.

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

So glad, You did !!! by carmelicious at 04/22/11 11:02PM Flag

This was very fun to watch. I watched over and over,Glad you have taken the time to show your expertise to people who want to learn a more proffesional way of cake baking and frosting ! Again Thank You ! Sabrina

Cake Recipe by Barb1322 at 03/08/11 09:00PM Flag

This cake recipe for us layman would be better if it would show measurements in cups and tsp or tbsp instead of ounces. Thanks for posting, but if you could convert it that would be great. As well you didn't tell us the measure of the cream of tartar and it isn't in the typed recipe at all.

thanx alot by set_elkul at 11/20/10 02:16PM Flag

first i want to say thank u for the recipe and the lesson i have a problrm finding the tartar in my country , so what can i use instead? and what is it exactllu , can u explain please. thanx again

Recipe by sherrieborges at 11/09/10 08:13AM Flag

Can you please email me the recipe with the exact measurements. the video is great but it does not give you exact measurements. Thanks - sherrieborges@gmail.com

by rosepatch at 03/11/10 06:46AM Flag

Can you please email me the recipe for the cake and the butter cream icing.. thanks

by annixx at 01/12/10 04:12PM Flag

this vid is good but she dosent show you how she does the swirls with her piping bag !! around he sides ...

WOW... AMAZING CAKE by maggie at 01/11/10 08:32AM Flag

Randi I think this has to be by far the best chocolate cake I've seen. You are very passionate and dedicated to what you do I am currently undertaking a cake decorating course myself to be able to achive my dream and my passion for creating delicious and wonderful cakes and creations just like you. Thankyou for inspireing me.

by Ivalina at 12/23/09 08:51AM Flag

After 4 days I have a birthday. Please, e-mail the entire recipe to me!

The cake by Queen18 at 06/01/09 03:28PM Flag

I really love this cake it looks beautiful... and so fun to make i would like to try and make the recipe on my own. would be able to e-mail me the entire recipe? QueenMarie69@comcast.net

shadia by shadia at 04/15/09 07:59AM Flag

fine

shadia by shadia at 04/15/09 07:53AM Flag

(Add Comment)

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

How To Prepare Cake Pans

How To Prepare Cake Pans

Chocolate Cake - Combining Dry Ingredients

Chocolate Cake - Combining Dry Ingredients

Chocolate Cake - Mixing Ingredients

Chocolate Cake - Mixing Ingredients

Chocolate Cake - Fill Cake Pans

Chocolate Cake - Fill Cake Pans

Chocolate Cake - Frosting your Cake

Chocolate Cake - Frosting your Cake

Cake Decorating - Tools

Cake Decorating - Tools

Cake Decorating - How to Choose a Professional Cake Pan

Cake Decorating - How to Choose a Professional Cake Pan

Cake Decorating - How to Prepare Your Cake Pan for Baking

Cake Decorating - How to Prepare Your Cake Pan for Baking

Cake Decorating - Three Ways to Get a Level Cake

Cake Decorating - Three Ways to Get a Level Cake