Matt Adlard Ultimate chocolate cake

00:00 Intro
01:55 Chocolate Cake
08:44 Chocolate Cremeux
11:26 Chocolate French Buttercream
14:35 Dark Chocolate Ganache
18:38 Assembly 1
24:10 Chocolate Drip
25:08 Assembly 2

Link to Matts Original recipe:
https://mattadlard.com/recipes/ultima...

You will most likely not use all of the fillings and ganache. So it you use roughly half of the fillings and use 2 cakes the calorie amount for the cake is roughly 13000 kCal. If you divide the cake into 16 pieces that would make each piece around 800 kCal.

I made a few changes to Matts recipe. I used butter instead of oil in the cake and milk instead of buttermilk.

Since the recipe consists of a Cake base, Chocolate cremeux, French buttercream, chocolate ganache and a chocolate drip below is the total amount of ingredients needed to make the entire cake:

Total Ingredients Needed
• Water:338g (25g + 313.33 g)
• Cocoa powder: 83.33 g
• White sugar: 740 g (520 g + 40 g + 140 g + 40 g)
• Baking soda: 25.33 g
• Flour: 326.67 g
• Fine sea salt: 2 g
• Eggs: 163.33 g (approximately 3-4 eggs)
• Milk: 473 (313.33 g + 160g)
• Butter: 706.67 g (196.67 g + 330 g + 85 g + 95 g)
• Heavy cream: 800 g (160 g + 640 g)
• Egg yolks: 205 g (65 g + 140 g)
• Dark chocolate: 985 g (185 g + 640 g + 160 g)
• Milk chocolate: 175 g
• A pinch of sea salt: As needed
• Glucose or honey: 40 g
• Sour cream: 220 g

Chocolate Cake (5275.83 calories)
• Water: 313.33 g
• Cocoa powder: 83.33 g
• White sugar: 520 g
• Baking soda: 25.33 g
• Flour: 326.67 g
• Fine sea salt: 2 g
• Eggs: 163.33 g (approximately 3-4 eggs)
• Buttermilk: 313.33 g (about 1.25 cups milk with 1.25 tablespoons vinegar or lemon juice)
• Butter: 196.67 g

Chocolate Cremeux (2056.55 calories)
• Milk: 160 g
• Heavy cream: 160 g (32-35% fat)
• Egg yolks: 65 g
• White sugar: 40 g
• Dark chocolate: 185 g (70% cocoa content)
• A pinch of sea salt

Chocolate French Buttercream (4362.15 calories)
• Egg yolks: 140 g
• White sugar: 140 g
• Water: 25 g
• Unsalted butter, room temperature: 330 g
• Milk chocolate (50% cocoa content): 175 g
• A pinch of sea salt flakes

Dark Chocolate Ganache (7023.05 calories)
• Dark chocolate (70% cocoa content): 640 g
• Heavy cream (32-35% fat): 640 g
• White sugar: 40 g
• Glucose or honey: 40 g
• Unsalted butter: 85 g
• Sour cream: 220 g

Chocolate Drip (1554.75 calories)
• Dark chocolate (70% cocoa content): 160 g
• Unsalted butter: 95 g