Speckled Chocolate Cake With Ganache

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
• 1 cup flour
• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
• 3/4 cup heavy cream

Recipe

• 1 heat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 butter the bottom and sides of a 8" springform pan.
• 3 line the bottom of the pan with parchment and butter the parchment paper.
• 4 separate the eggs. beat the egg yolks with the sugar for 5 minutes.
• 5 in a separate bowl beat the egg whites until stiff.
• 6 add the 1/2 c butter to the sugar mixture. stir in the chopped chocolate gently.
• 7 stir in 1/3 of the flour gently.
• 8 stir in 1/3 of the egg folding together as lightly as possible.
• 9 repeat, alternating between the flour and the egg whites.
• 10 pour cake batter into the prepared pan.
• 11 bake cake for 50 minutes.
• 12 cool cake on a wire rack.
• 13 to prepare gananche, heat the cream until hot but not boiling.
• 14 pour the crean over the chocolate.
• 15 stir occasionally while mixture is cooling. when completely cooled, beat with electric mixer until fluffy, 5-10 minutes. do not overbeat or the mixture will be very stiff and hard to spread.
• 16 place the cake back into the springform pan and top with the ganache. wrap and chill until firm.
• 17 remove from pan and serve.