Chocolate and Peach Cake is delicious chocolate cake covered with ganache and finished with some tinned peaches and swirls of cream .
Chocolate and Peach cake was made last year on our holiday to London . I baked the cake at a relativeâs house . They love eggless bakes , but donât get them easily . When I offered to bake they were more than happy . We had to get almost all the supplies from the store , but it was fun . Back home we realised we didnât have a baking tin , so we baked the cake in a baking dish . Anyways the cake turned out nice and moist , I frosted it with ganache , but had no time for it to sit and become thick , so as soon as both the cake and ganache came to room temperature , I just poured it over the cake . We had a can of peaches , so used those over the cake . We piped out some cream swirls and were done .
The cake was served immediately , since it was so fresh it got over in a jiffy and I felt I should have baked two cakes , so that they could have used the second one a little later . The chocolate and Peach combo tasted heavenly , a little cream on the side made it a perfect dessert and I could see many happy faces .
Chocolate and Peach Cake
Ingredients
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder + 1/2 tsp coffee powder
1 cup yogurt
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup cooking oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
Frosting
Method
Sieve the flour and cocoa and keep aside .
Cream sugar and curd till sugar has completely dissolved .
Add baking powder and baking soda and mix well.
Keep aside for 5 minutes till bubbles are formed .
Add cooking oil and vanilla essence and mix well .
Gradually add the flour and cocoa mix and blend with wet ingredients .
Beat well till creamy and thick .
Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10 minutes .
Meanwhile grease a baking tin , line it with a parchment and pour the prepared batter .
Bake for 10 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 180 deg C.
Now bake for 30 – 35 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean .
Let the cake cool for frosting .
Do not forget to remove the lined parchment paper .
Frosting
Ideally you should place the cake on a wire rack over a rimmed platter and pour your ganache evenly over the top of your cake until desired coverage is reached, but I just placed it on my platter and poured the ganache .
I added some tinned peaches and some fresh cream to the cake and it made a perfect dessert .
Our hosts were very happy ,enjoyed the eggless cake and couldnât stop thanking me . It sure is a joy when someone appreciates your efforts .
This is my post for Day 8 for Bakeathon.
Chocolate and Peach Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder + 1/2 tsp coffee powder
- 1 cup yogurt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup cooking oil
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Milk for brushing on the top
Frosting
- ganache
Instructions
Cake
- Sieve the flour and cocoa and keep aside .
- Cream sugar and curd till sugar has completely dissolved .
- Add baking powder and baking soda and mix well.
- Keep aside for 5 minutes till bubbles are formed .
- Add cooking oil and vanilla essence and mix well .
- Gradually add the flour and cocoa mix and blend with wet ingredients .
- Beat well till creamy and thick .
- Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10 minutes .
- Meanwhile grease a baking tin , line it with a parchment and pour the prepared batter .
- Bake for 10 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 180 deg C.
- Now bake for 30 - 35 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean .
- Let the cake cool for frosting .
- Do not forget to remove the lined parchment paper .
Frosting
- Ideally you should place the cake on a wire rack over a rimmed platter and pour your ganache evenly over the top of your cake until desired coverage is reached, but I just placed it on my platter and poured the ganache .
- I added some tinned peaches and some fresh cream to the cake and it made a perfect dessert .
That is such a decadent looking chocolate cake Vaishali. Iâm sure your guests were thrilled when you baked this eggless cake. Love the peach topping.
Haha I like that you didn’t even spare the time while on vacation! I wouldn’t even cook! If anybody asks me to do anything, I do it with a grumpy heart, somehow don’t like cooking or baking during that time, and unfortunately maybe because of the thought, I end up spoiling my dish. :/ I love how that cake looks and the peaches are like crown…
chocolate and peach combo is making a virtual treat to our eyes. Undoubtedly it must be a real treat for your relatives
Such a pretty gorgeous cake, i have never combined both chocolate and peach together in cake, now am very much tempted to give a try. Sounds like an interesting combination to bake some beauties without any fail. Love the way you have decorated the cake.
It’s a real treat for your relatives,the sliced peaches on top of the dark brown chocolate looks so gorgeous.
We bakers can create awesome desserts even without proper tins.and pans. This chocolate cake with the peaches look so beautiful and I can understand how it was finished off within minutes.
Such a sinful looking cake Vaishali. What an adventure it must have been, shopping in a new place for all these ingredients and getting it assembled..
That cake must have been a treat for your relatives and if I am not wrong. they must have tried baking it later too. Peaches, ganache and whipped cream must have made it a decadent dessert.
Peaches in a cake is quite interesting and more the fact that you baked in a vacation too ! Lovely combo of flavours there
The chocolate cake looks great. You did an awesome job in spite of having to compromise on baking utensils.
OMG that ganache is drooling me. What a delicious bake and yummy and chocolaty ganache.
what a showstopper looking dessert – perfect for holiday or special occasion celebrations
Cake looks droolsome vaishali! i bet those peaches with ganache must be tasting delish!
I love the clicks Vaishali. It looks like the one we see on a magazine. Drooling