No matter how you bake and slice it, this classic yellow cake with fudgy chocolate ganache is a show-stopper cake with homemade goodness and elegance, a particularly apt dessert to serve at holiday dinners. I brought it to the Thanksgiving feast I attended along with pumpkin and pecan pies. Those were hardly touched by the 12 guests who instead made a beeline for the cake.
Yellow cake with chocolate ganache
Standing four layers high it holds a kitchen sink of ingredients: both cake and all-purpose flours, butter, oil (which gives great moistness to cakes), buttermilk, whole eggs and egg yolks (for deep yellow color), sugar, vanilla extract and softly whipped heavy cream that’s folded into the batter at the end. It’s iced with a fudge frosting, which is basically a ganache made with semi-sweet chocolate, heavy cream and dark-brown sugar. Instead of chopping the chocolate use chocolate chips. I used Guittard. (Sold at Whole Foods.)
