Chocolate Truffle Cake

Name: Chocolate Truffle Cake
Yield: Makes 1× 25 cm (10 in) cake
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 50 g (2 oz) caster sugar; 85 ml (3 fl oz) water; 1× 25 cm (10 in) Chocolate Vanilla Sponge (Genoise), cut in half horizontally to give a 1 cm (½ in) thick slice (freeze any left); 4 egg yolks; 600 ml (1 pint) double cream; 450 g (1 lb) good quality plain chocolate; Rum to taste; 25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter, softened; 50 ml (2 fl oz) double cream; 100 g (4 oz) good quality plain chocolate

Preparation info

Makes
1× 25 cm
cake

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Open Rhodes Around Britain

By Gary Rhodes

Published 1996

About

The quantities of chocolate and cream in this recipe are quite frightening: it’s really 450 g (1 lb) to 600 ml (1 pint

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