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Easy 15 Minutes Cake in a Frying Pan | No-Bake Chocolate Cake
Learn how to make the easiest cake ever – cake in a frying pan! To make this pancake cake you need only 15 minutes of work and few basic ingredients. This easy chocolate cake is made with 4 layers of cake (pancake), creamy mascarpone cream, chocolate ganache and chopped pistachios. The beauty of this cake is that you can make as much slices as you want, and you don’t have to make a whole cake.
Easy 15 Minutes Cake in a Frying Pan | No-Bake Chocolate Cake
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Prep Time 15 minutes mins
WORK TIME 15 minutes mins
DIFFICULTY Easy
Cuisine World
Servings 2 yields
Ingredients
For the cake layer:
- 1 Egg
- 2 tablespoons 25g Sugar
- 1 tablespoon 15g Butter, melted
- ⅓ cup 80ml Milk
- ½ cup 63g All-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons 15g Cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
For the filling:
- ½ cup 115g Mascarpone cheese
- 1 ½ tablespoons 30ml Milk
- 3 tablespoons 20g Powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla extract
For the topping:
- 40 g Dark chocolate
- ¼ cup 60ml Heavy cream
- Pistachios
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS
- Make the cake layer: in a bowl, whisk egg and sugar until combined. Add milk, butter and whisk until combined. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt. Stir until combined and smooth.
- Heat a 9-inch (23cm) non-stick pan, lightly grease the pan with oil spray with oil.
- Pour the butter, spread it evenly. Cover with a lid. Cook over medium-low heat until bubbles start to form on the surface of the pancake, about 3-4 minutes. Flip and cook for 1-2 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
- Make the filling: in a small bowl, stir mascarpone, milk, powdered sugar and vanilla extract, mix until smooth. Transfer to a piping bag (optional).
- Cut the pancake into equal quarters. Assembly: take one quarter of the cake layer and spread 1/3 of the cream, then top with the second quarter and spread another 1/3 of the cream, top with third cake layer and spread the last 1/3 of the cream. Then, top with the last cake quarter. Then cut the cake into two smaller slices as showed in the video. Set aside.
- Make the ganache: chop the chocolate and place in a heat proof bowl. in a small saucepan bring heavy cream to a simmer. Pour over the chocolate and let sit for 1-2 minutes, then stir until melted.
- Pour chocolate ganache over the cake slices. Sprinkle with chopped pistachios and serve.
Made it gluten free with a flour mix of 1.5 cup Yuca and 1 cup rice flour. Also doubled the sugar and used oil instead of butter. In between the layers I did shortening, sugar and peppermint extract and decorated with fresh flowers. Perfect dessert that was gluten and dairy free for Valentine’s Day. Thanks so much for the inspiration!!!
Sounds like Bel created a whole new and different cake. The filling inside the layers bore no resemblance to the original recipe.
Question: the dark chocolate in the end are you using compound chocolate or just dark chocolate? also what percentage dark is it?
like we get it in 50% and 75%?
This is a ganache so any recipe you have will work for it but usually:
Ingredients
8 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate (we like 61 percent cacao)
1 cup heavy cream
⅛ teaspoon coarse salt
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