Saturday, January 8, 2011
Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake
This cake is intense: dark chocolate cake layers, soaked in salted caramel, topped with a chocolate salted caramel ganache and sprinkled with sea salt.
This cake is based off the cake from Baked, which I made during the holidays for a party. A few people at the party had dairy intolerance so I was able to make it dairy-free by using almond milk in place of the heavy cream.
For how labor-intensive this cake was, I was a little disappointed with the out come of the cake. The overall taste of the cake was good; I just wasn’t wowed like I was expected. It could have been due, in part, to the substitutions I made. So if you made this cake, I recommend sticking with the original ingredients.
There was also supposed to be another layer in the cake, but it completly fell apart coming out of the pan. I ended up making it into cake balls, using leftover salted caramel instead of frosting to form the balls, and then dipping them in slightly melted ganache. For some reason, I liked these better than the cake.
To get the full recipe, check out Baked: New Frontiers in Baking. There is also a similar recipe available here, although some of the baking times seem a little different.
Due to health reasons I have to avoid white sugar and flour for a bit, so my next recipes will have a different spin on them. I can’t wait to share those recipes with you!
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Brittany — January 8, 2011 @ 9:33 am
Shame you wren’t 100% happy with the cake. It looks fabulous though, I would have never guessed. It seems so moist! I love the little balls too; they are always cute..and so easy to eat.
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thecaramelcookie Reply:
January 8th, 2011 at 9:43 am
It’s kind of bad that the cake balls are so easy to eat–I end up eating WAY too many! I want to try the real version at Baked bakery some day to see if I like it any better.
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Nourhan @ Miss Anthropist's Kitchen — January 8, 2011 @ 2:01 pm
It looks divine! I would love to try those cake balls
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Jenn@eatcakefordinner — January 9, 2011 @ 12:31 am
Sorry to hear about all your work and being a little disappointed afterwards. It sure looks good. What a creative idea using the broken cake layer for cake balls, I still haven’t tried those.
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thecaramelcookie Reply:
January 9th, 2011 at 9:04 am
You should definately make some cake balls! They are are so much fun to make!
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bigFATcook — January 9, 2011 @ 11:01 am
Caramel and chocolate. I’m a huge, and I mean HUGE fan of this combination!! And if you add some peanut butter it could be dangerous, cuz it’d drive me nuts.
(or peanuts) 
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thecaramelcookie Reply:
January 9th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Mmm peanut butter sounds good!
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lynne — January 9, 2011 @ 12:44 pm
that’s too bad it didn’t come out perfectly. But at least you were able to make some cake balls!!
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Anonymous — January 9, 2011 @ 5:00 pm
This cake does look scrumptious! The cake balls are a fantastic idea. Great recipe.
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JanPan — January 10, 2011 @ 2:02 pm
I had the cake at the Baked location in Charleston and I wasn’t impressed. However, I unknowingly tried the recipe thinking that it was a similar cake and not the same cake that I’d had almost a year earlier and it was FABULOUS! It’s funny because had I known it was the same cake; I might not have tried to bake it. My family LOVES it; I have since baked it three more times. Don’t get me wrong, it is no easy feat; it is time consuming and costly. I think the key is to be patient and use quality ingredients.
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thecaramelcookie Reply:
January 10th, 2011 at 8:03 pm
I agree with you about the quality of ingredients. I would like to try it again with the dairy ingredients to see if I like it any better.
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Christina @ Sweet Pea's Kitchen — January 11, 2011 @ 1:22 pm
I am obsessed with the Baked book! I love all of the recipes that I have tried. I need to make this one too…looks incredible!
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Emily — January 11, 2011 @ 4:13 pm
Gosh, I think it looks really good! We as bakers are sometimes too hard on ourselves. I bet everyone who had this cake thought it tasted amazing.
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Evan Thomas — January 11, 2011 @ 9:28 pm
My favorite thing about having a baking fall right before christmas was being able to make cakeballs. They’re so fun to eat
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blackbookkitchendiaries — January 12, 2011 @ 2:17 pm
this cake is just gorgeous! thank you for sharing this.
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Kathryn — January 12, 2011 @ 3:17 pm
That cake is absolutely gorgeous! We’d love if you could enter it into the Recipe4Living 5th Birthday Contest! You could win a huge gift basket full of Scharffen Berger gourmet chocolate!
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Jess — April 1, 2011 @ 10:17 am
Oh gosh, that looks delicious. For some reason salted things and chocolate go fabulously together. — I have when the cake falls apart coming out of the pan : ((
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