Chocolate Glazed and Whipped Ganache with Cream Cheese

Ingredients

Chocolate fudge cake
Cake flour 150g
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Baking powder 1tsp
Cocoa powder 40g
A pinch of salt
Vanilla extract 1tsp
Brown sugar 50g
Granulated sugar 75g
Dark chocolate (70%) 100g
Unsalted butter 80g
Oil 25g
Full-fat milk 60g
Water 80g
2 eggs

Whipped ganache
White Chocolate 200g
Whipping Cream. 200g
Cream Cheese 300g

Mirror Glaze:
Dark chocolate (70%) 200g
Sugar 100g
Water 100g
Sweetened condensed milk 140g
Gelatin 2tbsp

White chocolate 150g (optional) for marble glaze
Sugar 50g
Water 50g
Sweetened condensed milk 70g
Gelatin 1.5tbsp


Tips

This cake recipe uses 70% chocolate to reduce the sweetness from the chocolate ganache and chocolate mirror glaze.

Adding cream cheese to the ganache helps balance the sweetness, preventing it from becoming overly sweet when using white chocolate.

Making a cake a day before helps the texture become moist without the need for additional syrup, providing another way to reduce sweetness.

When glazing the cake, slowly rotate it in a circular motion, ensuring that the chocolate glaze covers the cake evenly all around.