Recipe: Italian Chocolate Cake [edit]

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Step 2

Sift flour, baking soda, cocoa powder and sugar so there are no lumps and texture is smooth.

Step 3

Make sure that brewed coffee is at room temp and not warm. This will prevent a reaction with the baking soda. Mix ingredients, but do not over mix.

Step 4

Restaurant manager could not advise on the cooking time as they make this commercially, but said to use a toothpick to check doneness and make allowances for different oven usage.

Step 5

Frosting is a Ganache Frosting; the ingredients are heavy cream and semisweet cocoa or use any good Ganache Frosting recipe.

Step 6

As far as the presentation of the cake, drizzle frosting on the plate, place the square of cake on the frosting and top with a mint leaf.