Sunday, May 31, 2020

Chocolate Ganache and Blackberry Cake - Charlotte Ree's recipe


Celebrate your birthday today. Celebrate being happy every day.
Anonymous

On Tuesday, my blog quietly turned 13 years old.  It's hard to believe that I started this blog so long ago.  I spent a good couple of years reading other people's blogs before I decided that I could so it too, and jumped in.  And here I still am, though much less frequently, as I have found Instagram a much quicker and easier way to share my cooking adventures.

I think the fact that I am still blogging is an occasion worth celebrating, so I will do so in the time honoured fashion of sharing a cake.

This cake is Chocolate Ganache and Blackberry Cake, and fittingly,  I discovered the recipe on my new favourite medium, Instagram.  It was posted by Charlotte Ree, an Australian baker who has published a cookbook fittingly called Just Desserts.


Despite looking ultra-chocolatey, this cake is flavoured with cocoa rather than chocolate.  The chocolate ganache and the blackberries are decorations on the cake rather than being ingredients.

I was particularly drawn to this cake because Charlotte had baked her version in the same Nordic Ware bundt tin that I had bought just before the lockdown started.  I hadn't had a chance to use it because one person does not need a whole bundt cake, but I had visitors coming for the first time in weeks on the weekend that I made it, so there was an excuse to make a whole cake.  And it certainly was a beauty of a cake, inside and out: 


I also shared this cake with my downstairs neighbours, who told me not once but twice how much they enjoyed it.  Now there's a ringing endorsement. 

You can find the recipe for this cake in Charlotte's book, on her Instagram site, or online here.  Go on, make it - I know you want to!

On that note, happy bloggiversary to Laws of the Kitchen.

4 comments:

Andrea_TheKitchenLioness said...

Dear Gaye - a very Happy Bloggiversary indeed!!! I cannot believe that you have been blogging for 13 years! Respect!
Your celebratory cake looks irrestible. What a delicious way to celebrate your incredible achievements! And I love that Bundt pan from Nordic Ware (I have the same one and I love it).
It makes your cocoa cake look particularly pretty!
Happy weekend!
Andrea

Johanna GGG said...

Happy blog anniversary - 13 years is some time to continue blogging in this day and age! And you have done some amazing baking in this time - I am sure there are colleagues all over melbourne missing your baking right now! But looks like we (and esp you) can do a little more baking for others soon!

Cakelaw said...

Thank you! Yes, that bundt tin is fabulous.

Cakelaw said...

Thank you! I believe you have passed or are coming up to the same milestone. It will be wonderful when we can meet again and share baking.