Mini Opera Cake for Valentine's Day

 

Easy to bake! I love opera cake.
Not a classic one but so moist opera ever.
I hope this will be perfect for valentine's day. Also good to make this simple dessert with your kids.



**Mini Opera Cake recipe**

15 pound cake mold for sponge

<sponge cake>
1 egg
40g granulated sugar
30g flour
20g cocoa powder
20g melted butter

<simple brandy syrup for cocoa sponge>
20g water
20g granulated sugar
1 tbs brandy

<ganache>
90g dark chocolate
50g heavy cream

Bake sponge cake
1. Mix egg yolk and 10g granulated sugar in a bowl until color turns white a bit.
2. Beat egg white and 30g granulated sugar in a another clean bowl until get stiff peak.
3. Blend egg yolk and egg white quietly.
4. Add shifted flour and cocoa powder into the bowl. Blend them.
5. Add melted butter into the bowl and blend them but not to mix too much.
6. Bake it in the preheated oven at 170C for 15 min.
7. Cool sponge cake down completely.
8. Slice sponge into 3.

Make simple brandy syrup
9. Warm up water and granulated sugar in a sauce pan on medium heat.
10. Add brandy into the sauce pan for couple of minutes.
11. Cool syrup down.
12. Apply syrup on cocoa sponge for each.

Make ganache
12. Warm up heavy cream in a sauce pan and add small pieces of chocolate. Make chocolate melt completely into heavy cream.

Decorate opera cake
13. Apply ganache on cocoa sponge with syrup each layer.
14. Decorate opera cake in your favorite way. I used berried and eligible gold.