Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake
Chocolate Poke Cake is a sinful chocolate cake where the sponge of the cake is poked with caramel sauce making the cake nice and gooey.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 4 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/2 cup curd
- 1/4 cup unsweetened coffee
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Other Ingredients
- Caramel sauce
- chocolate ganache
- Assorted chocolates
- Sprinklers
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 175 deg C.
- Grease and line a cake tin.
- Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda.
- Mix oil, milk, curd and vanilla.
- Mix the dry ingredients with wet ingredients until well incorporated.
- Heat 1/4 cup of water and add 1/2 tsp of coffee.
- Add this coffee to the cake batter and mix well.
- Bake for 30 -40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. ( this would depend on how thick your cake is .)
- Invert the cake on a cooling rack and wait for it to come to room temperature.
Assembling the Cake
- Poke holes all over the entire cake using the end of a wooden spoon/ chopstick.
- Pour the caramel sauce over the cake allowing it to seep into the holes.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight (minimum 4 hours, longer is better)
- !Frosting
- Spread the chocolate ganache on top and cover the sides too.
- Decorate with chocolates, sprinklers and vermicelli.
- I used Ferrero rocher and Lindt chocolates along with wafer stick.
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