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Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

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Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

This recipe is modeled after the Hershey’s  ”Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate Cake recipe with a just a few modifications. And I just winged it with the ganache! I hope you like this cake. It’s quite delicious and taste best warm.

Ingredients
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup Stevia
3/4 cup Hershey’s Cocoa
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 3/4 cup of whole wheat flour
2 eggs
2 tsp of vanilla extract
1 cup of vanilla soy milk
1/2 cup of  unsweetened applesauce
1 cup of fresh brewed coffee

Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease two 9 inch round cake pans.

1. Stir together sugar, stevia,  flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl.

2. Add the eggs, milk, applesauce and vanilla to the flour mixture and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Stir in fresh brewed coffee (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared pans.

2. Bake 30 to 35 minutes and do the Toothpick Test.  Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.

Chocolate Ganache
2 TBS of butter
7 squares of the Baker’s Chocolate
1/4 cup of vanilla soy milk

1. In a medium saucepan, fill with 4 cups of water and bring to a boil. Sit an aluminum mixing bowl over the boiling water.
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2. Add the butter to the mixing bowl as it sits over the water. As it melts add the chocolate squares and the soy milk.  Keep stirring until smooth, about 3-5 minutes.

3. Get your cakes ready.  On one cake, add two spoonfuls of ganache and spread evenly. Keep the ganache warm and smooth by keeping the chocolate in the bowl and back into the saucepan while your spreading.  Add the second cake on top of the first cake. Pour the ganache over the cake spreading it along the top of the cake and letting it drip off the sides.

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One Love

Everyday I’m learning the importance of opening up our heart and mind. If you are closed to the world, the world will be closed to you.   I think this can be applied to many, if not all areas of our life.

I like this song. It has that feel-good feeling.  When I listen to it, it makes me feel like negative energy is being pulled away.

Inspiration

To me, inspiration is being moved into action. It’s the process of being mentally stimulated to do, create or be.  I see inspiration like a flame. It needs to be ignited, sometimes it flickers, sometimes big, sometimes small,  eventually that flame will go out. That’s not to say it’s gone forever. In some instances the flame will go out just as quick as it was ignited, while other times the flame will last hours, even days. What ignites this flame? In other words, where do we find inspiration. The world around us is what inspires. People, things, music, nature, the list goes on.

What inspires us changes, just as we do. When inspiration hits, take advantage of it! I think we have to be open in our mind and heart to the world around us, because you never know what or who will inspire you.

All of our experiences have made us who we are. They have contributed to our attitude, personality, and perceptions. These same experiences have assisted us in creating barriers. These barriers exist around our heart and they exist  around our mind. When we allow these barriers to act as a dam, it’s challenging to become inspired.

Let’s become inspired! It begins with you. Make the decision to be more open-minded and live with a softer heart. This may come easy to you, or it may be tough. Its okay.