Rich Chocolate Cake with Coconut Filling and Ganache
nannydeb
Photo by Bobbi Lin
- Serves
- 10 to 12
- Prep Time
- 1 Hour 5 Minutes
- Cook Time
- 1 Hour 25 Minutes
My friends often request the Hyde Park Fudge Cake for their birthdays, which I've made a hundred times. This variation has a yummy coconut filling and a decadent ganache that I could eat with a spoon until I'm sick! - nannydeb
Ingredients
- 18 ounce good quality bittersweet chocolate, divided, chopped
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla, divided
- 1 1/2 cup strong black coffee
- 3 1/3 cup sugar, divided
- 3 cup cake flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 8 ounce softened cream cheese
- 1 cup unsweetened flaked coconut
- 1 cup heavy cream
Featured Video
This is the bear hug of chocolate cakes -- it's big, it's rich and it's lovable. Inside the dense, sweet cake is tangy layer of cream cheese and coconut. And on top of the bundt cake is a thin ganache glaze. You're supposed to bake the cake in a Bundt pan, but if you don't have one, a tube pan works well (and makes it easier to cut out the cake if it gets stuck). - A&M
Directions
- Step 1
Set out the cream cheese to soften. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Step 2
Grease a 10-12 cup bundt pan and dust with cocoa powder.
- Step 3
In a small saucepan, melt 8 ounces of the chocolate with the shortening. Set aside to cool slightly.
- Step 4
In a mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese with 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/3 cup sugar and the coconut. Set aside.
- Step 5
In a large mixing bowl, combine cooled chocolate mixture, 3 eggs, 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and coffee.
- Step 6
In another mixing bowl, whisk together the sugar, cake flour, soda and salt.
- Step 7
Combine dry ingredients into wet ingredients until just incorporated.
- Step 8
Pour half of the chocolate cake mixture in to the bundt pan. Top that with the coconut/cream cheese mixture and then top that with the remaining cake mixture.
- Step 9
Bake on the center rack of a 350 degree oven for 45-65 minutes or until tester comes out clean.
- Step 10
Cool the cake in the bundt pan on a wire rack for 10 mintues. Invert the cake on a serving plate to cool further.
- Step 11
While cake is cooling, bring the heavy cream to a simmer. Remove from heat and whisk in 10 ounces bittersweet chocolate until smooth. Set aside to cool.
- Step 12
Once the cake has cooled, drizzle or pour (depending on how much icing you want) the ganache on to the cake.