#Chocolate opera cake how to#

Set aside until ready to use.Īssembly : (have a look at the fun video below to see how to assembly, pause in places if it goes too fast! 🙂 )

Melt the chocolate and oil together and whisk until glossy.

Heat up the coffee and sugar in a saucepan, until thick.

Then whisk until thick and leave aside until ready to use.

Heat the cream and syrup in a saucepan until it just comes to a boil then pour over the chocolate in a seperate bowl.

Pour back into the stand mixer and whisk with the butter and strong coffee until thick and glossy buttercream.

Heat up whisk stirring until it thickens.

Pour back into the saucepan through a sieve.

Whisk the egg yolks and sugar in a stand mixer, and then add in the coffee milk while whisking.

Let it seep for 5 min, making sure the milk doesnt over boil.

In a small saucepan heat up the milk, with coffee beans and sugar.

Once cooled, slice into three equal long rectangles.

Bake in the middle of the oven for 7-8 minutes, until lightly golden brown. Then fold in the other ingredients and spread out onto the baking tray.

Whisk the egg whites in a stand whisker or with a hand held whisk until thick and fluffy, add 50g sugar and whisk until thick and glossy.

Turn the oven on to 230C (420F), and line a baking tray with baking paper.

1 tsp sunflower oil (or any vegetable non-flavored oil).

140g dark chocolate (i used hummingbird chocolate 80%, you can buy it here).

150g dark chocolate (i used hummingbird chocolate 75%, you can buy it here).

It is definitely an adult taste but it is sooooooo yummy! i mean on the difficult spectrum this is pretty intense ( mainly because its time consuming i think) and thats what i felt this was the perfect fit to the prefect chocolate. An opera cake – layers of hazelnut jaconde, with coffee syrup, coffee buttercream, luscious chocolate ganache and a chocolate glaze. it needs to be baked into something that I feel is just as award winning. (link to their page here) the chocolate is absoulty amazing, and i kept thinking and thinking what I should bake with it.

I recently received some award winning chocolate from Hummingbird Chocolate in Ontario Canada.

Chocolate opera cake