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Chocolate Triple Layer Toffee Cake

Ingredients
  

Ganache Filling:

  • 16 oz. Ghirardelli semisweet chocolate chopped into small pieces
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 3 tablespoons light corn syrup
  • 1 ½ cups Heath toffee bits for assembly time

Cake

  • ¾ cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • ½ cup + 2 Tablespoons soft butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¾ cup whole milk
  • ¼ cup sour cream

Frosting

  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • ¼ cup powdered sugar

Garnish (optional)

  • Graham crackers
  • extra toffee for crackers and bottom border
  • Bada Bing Melts

Instructions
 

Ganache

  • Make this early, it takes 3 hours!
  • Place chocolate in a heatproof bowl.
  • Heat cream and corn syrup to almost boiling and pour over the chocolate.
  • Let sit a minute and whisk smooth.
  • Cover with plastic and chill 3 hours. Stir every half hour or so. After 3 hours it should be thick enough to spread as a frosting.

Cake

  • Preheat oven to 350°F
  • Spray 3 9-inch round baking pans with pam, line bottoms with parchment paper, grease again and set aside.
  • In small bowl combine cocoa and boiling water with a whisk until smooth. Cool.
  • In medium bowl stir together flour, baking soda and salt.
  • In a mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
  • Add eggs, one at a time and vanilla.
  • Slowly add the cocoa mix.
  • Add 1/3 of the flour mix, then the milk. Then 1/3 of flour and the sour cream. Then, add the past of the flour.
  • Mix well and divide into the pans.
  • Bake 20-22 mins until the toothpick comes out clean.
  • Cool and pop out of pans. Remove parchment,

Assembly:

  • Lay one cake on platter, top with half ganache.
  • Sprinkle on half the toffee.
  • Place the next layer on top.
  • Spread with the rest of the ganache and the toffee.
  • Place on the third cake layer.

Whipped Cream

  • Beat heavy cream until soft peaks.
  • Add powdered sugar.
  • Beat until stiffer and a nice spreading consistency.
  • Cover the cake with cream.

Garnish

  • Melt bada bing melts gently.
  • Dip graham crackers.
  • Lay on wax paper.
  • Sprinkle on toffee and pop in fridge 10 mins to set.
  • Lay around the cake and add toffee to bottom of cake, going around.