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I decided to create a special post for today. I have been trying to eat healthier as of late and with healthy eating comes fewer opportunities to do something that I absolutely love: bake. I decided that I would allow myself to bake on the weekends. It would give me an opportunity to create something delicious for myself and Andrew and also indulge after a week of eating healthy.
This weekend I decided I would try my hand at a triple layer chocolate fudge cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and a chocolate ganache glaze. Is your mouth watering yet? Mine was when I read the description. I had made vanilla buttercream from a different recipe before and was sorely disappointed by the outcome. It tasted like pure butter slathered onto the cake. I was eager to try a different recipe and hoped for a different outcome. My results were perfection.
I believe the keys to this cake's success were using brown sugar and oil as opposed to white sugar and butter in the batter as well as powdered cocoa rather than baking chocolate. The frosting was simple yet divine. A pound and a half of sweet cream butter, 2 tablespoons of vanilla, 3 cups of sifted powdered sugar and a pinch of salt. Normally frosting isn't my favorite part of a cake, but I think this frosting in particular was just that: the icing on the cake! The ganache glaze was also simple but exceptionally delicious. Hot heavy cream poured over semi-sweet chocolate and light corn syrup. Whisk them all together to create smoothy, dreamy chocolate perfection. Pour this atop the generously frosted cake and let it run down the sides. Voila!
I would like to thank my mom and Kitchen aid for providing me with my mixer. Without which I could not have completed this recipe.