Tuxedo Cake

• Black ganache:
• 200 g dark chocolate (55% cocoa)
• 200 ml whipped cream
• White ganache:
• 200 gr white chocolate
• 200 ml whipped cream
• Ganache for covering the cake;
• 125 g milk chocolate (or dark)
• 50 g white chocolate (optional)
• 175 ml whipped cream
• Glaze:
• 100g dark chocolate
• 100 ml whipped cream
• 1 tablespoon honey
• Butter, for greasing the pans
• 13/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
• 2 cups sugar
• 3/4 cups good cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 cup buttermilk, shaken
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter two 8-inch x 2-inch round cake pans. Line with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans.
2. Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed until combined. In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn them out onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
3. Black ganache:
4. Put whipped cream into a stainless steel saucepan and put it on low heat.
5. When its hot, add the chocolate pieces and let it rest for 1 minute, then stir with a whisk until chocolate has melted and becomes shiny and creamy.
6. Allow the ganache to cool in the freezer for approx. 15 minutes.
7. When cool, beat the ganache cream with an electric mixer until it becomes fluffy and pale.
8. White and cream ganache cream ganache for cake dressed:
9. Follow the same procedure as for the black ganache cream!
10. If you want, you can make one single black ganache cream, but keep about a quarter for covering the cake.
11. Assembling the cake:
12. Place the 1st cake layer (the sponge) on a plate, add the black ganache and level it well. If it seems soft,refrigerate the cake for aprox. 30 min.
13. Over the black ganache cream, add the second layer of the white ganache and refrigerate as well, then put the second layer of cake (the sponge)and level the cake well with the remaining ganache.9Aprox. 1/4 from the black ganache) Introduces the cake in the refrigerator until the frosting is ready.
14. Glaze: (frosting)
15. read more on http://gabrielacuisine.ro

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/tuxedo-cake-52441331 (may not work)