Mikado Cake Recipe

Rich Mikado cake that you can serve as is or filled with a delicious chocolate ganache. On this occasion, we have used the ganache only to decorate, but do not hesitate to double the amounts of ganache and fill this easy chocolate cake.

If you like these elongated chocolate-covered cookies, do not hesitate to make this cake, made with basic ingredients that you will surely all have at home. The step by step, as always, you will find it here, in this article. Let’s go for the recipe for the chocolate cake with Mikados.

Ingredients to make Mikado Cake:

• 200 grams of dark chocolate
• 125 grams of butter
• 4 eggs L
• 125 grams of sugar
• 75 grams of cream or milk cream
• 150 grams of flour
• 1 tablespoon chemical yeast powder
• 1 package of Mikado
• For the ganache:
• 50 grams of grated dark chocolate
• 25 milliliters of cream or milk cream

How to make Mikado Cake:

1. First we are going to preheat the oven to 180ºC. Then, we chop the 200 g of dark chocolate and put them in a bowl together with the butter. We melt it in the microwave or in a water bath and reserve.
2. Beat the eggs with the sugar until the mixture is white and we can continue preparing the dough for the chocolate cake with Mikados.
3. Add the mixture of chocolate and melted butter and the cream. We mix well.
4. Combine the yeast with the flour and sift over the mixture.
5. Grease a round mold and pour the dough for the Mikado cake into it. We tap the mold a few times so that the dough settles and there are no bubbles inside.
6. We are putting the Mikados in the center in the shape of a star.
7. We put a long Mikado, cutting only the tip that is not bathed and one that we will cut smaller, like this in the entire center of the cake.
8. We bake the chocolate cake with Mikados at 180 ºC with heat up and down for 35 minutes.
9. Remove the tart from the oven and unmold it to cool. We turn it around again so that the mikados are on top.
10.  To decorate the cake we are going to make a chocolate ganache.
11. To do this, we heat the cream in the microwave until it boils, immediately add the chopped chocolate and stir until it is completely dissolved.
12.  Let cool and store in the fridge. At the time of serving the cake, we decorate the center of the cake with the chocolate ganache.
13. White chocolate ganache could also be made.
14. The Mikado cake will keep very well wrapped in plastic wrap.