Chocolate and cream help please.....

specialK

Hi

Years ago my Mum used to let me make Easy Chocolate Cake.

Now I am sure it was just chocolate, cream and nice biscuits.

You would melt chocolate in bowl over pan of hot water and add cream (I think, I can't remember if anything else was used)

You then lined a loaf tin and layered the chocolate mix and biscuits like a lasagne and put in the fridge to set.

It was deeeelish, well now I want to make DD a heart shaped chocolate cake for her birthday. I have heart shaped tin and heart ice cube tray on order and was hoping I could use this chocolate cream mix to make heart decorations for the cake. But I can't remember if anything else is used or if there is a name for it. (not really a person who calls things by their name, ie;carbonnara is spaghetti cream).

Does anyone know what I am talking about please?? I could just practise..... but then I would EAT the mistakes if any were made

I have thought about just melting chocolate and then setting it again in the mould, but this chocolate cream thing was softer to the bite and divine.

The cake will be chocolate fudge, covered in chocolate cream hearts and drizzled with lashings of cream

Sorry for ramble and Than Q.

Gingernutmeg

Soundsl ike this was a chocolate ganache, which is just equal parts of chocolate and double cream. I make this by heating the cream up till just below boiling, pouring the cream into a bowl, and then gently beating in some finley chopped good quality chocolate (I find this easier than melting the chocolate first, as doing it this way means you're less likely to burn the chocolate). As you beat the mixture and as it cools, it will thicken up into a lovely chocolate cream

And the cake sounds so yummy

hex2

I do a similar one with chocolate, butter and chopped up biscuits. sets to a hard cake in the fridge. Nice with nuts or marzipanin as well. Equal quantities biscuit and chocolate, half quantity of butter.

specialK

Thank you for both your replies, I am glad this will work out as planned, I will give these a go.

(I'll probably make one on the sly................just to test )