Salted Caramel Chocolate Poke Cake
Salted Caramel Chocolate Poke Cake is a delicious cake where a chocolate cake is poked with holes all over and filled with salted caramel sauce.
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 12 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tsp instant coffee powder
- 1/2 cup hot water
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 cup curd
- 1 cup oil
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp vanilla
Filling
- 3/4 cup salted caramel sauce
Frosting
- 3/4 cup ganache
- 1/4 cup Caramel sauce
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat the oven to 180C
- Grease a baking pan and line it with parchment paper.
- Sift the flour, soda, baking powder and cocoa powder. Keep aside.
- Beat sugar, oil, instant coffee powder mixed with hot water, milk, curd till it is frothy.
- Fold in the dry ingredients. Mix well.
- Pour in the prepared tin and bake for 40 mins or until the skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Filling
- Transfer the prepared cake to the cooling rack. Let the cake sit in the same tin.
- Make holes in the cake with a wooden skewer.
- The size of the hole can be upto 1/4" wide, at equi distance all over the cake.
- Pour the salted caramel sauce into the holes. Make sure you pour while both the sauce and cake are still hot. Else it will solidy.
- Let the cake cool in the pan completely.
- Keep the cake in the fridge overnight.
Frosting
- Pour the ganache over the cake making a swirl pattern .
- Similarly drizzle the caramel sauce to create a pattern .
- Let set and then add some white chocolate chips .
- ( Alternatively one can frost the cake as per choice )
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