Ingredients
Scale
For sponge
- 200 g Flour
- 200 g Castor sugar
- 120 g Oil
- 28 g Natural cocoa powder
- 5 g Baking soda
- 4 g Coffee powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- 240 ml Water (boiling)
- 13 ml Apple cider vinegar
For Chocolate ganache
- 400 g Dark couverture
- 200 g Cream
For soaking syrup
- 70 ml Water
- 1 tbsp Vanilla essence
For garnish
- Strawberry
- Red currant
- Edible flowers
- Blueberries
For Blueberry jam
- Blueberries – 180 g
- Sugar – 80 g
- Cream of tartar – ¼ tsp
- Salt – ¼ tsp
Instructions
Method for sponge
- Preheat the oven to 180C (otg mode: upper rod, +lower rod + fan). Grease and line three 6-inch round tins with oil and butter paper.
- Now sieve all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Mix all wet ingredients hot water, oil, and vinegar.
- Now carefully mix wet and dry ingredients to form a smooth batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tins equally and bake it at 180C for 30-35 min minutes (otg mode: lower rod only)
Method for blueberry jam
- Take a pan and cook blueberries and sugar together on medium flame.
- Smash blueberries with the help of the spatula.
- When the mixture gets thicker, add salt and cream of tartar into this.
- Cook it for a few minutes and check the consistency with the help of a spoon.
Method for ganache
- Melt chocolate in the microwave and warm the cream.
- Mix the two until a smooth ganache is formed.
Method for soaking syrup
- In a bowl, mix water and vanilla essence.
Assembly
- Demould the sponges and cut the dome if required.
- Place a cake board on the turn table and place some ganache in the center. Now, put the first layer of the sponge and soak it with soaking syrup using a pastry brush.
- Now pipe some ganache on the sponge and spread evenly. Pipe a layer of ganache on the edge of the cake(like a border) to fill the blueberry jam inside. Finally, add a layer of Blueberry jam.
- Place the second sponge layer and repeat the same process as above.
- Crumb-coat the cake with ganache and let it rest in the fridge for 20 -25 minutes.
- Now, frost the cake with a final layer of ganache and give a spiral look on the top. Take some ganache on a bent palette knife for the sides and give a stroke design.
- Lastly, decorate it with fresh blueberries, strawberries, red currants, and edible flowers.