# Chocolate Overload Cake and Chocolate Lava Cake

This recipe shows how to decorate a basic chocolate cake into a Chocolate Overload Cake and a Chocolate Lava Cake.

- Total time: 4 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 200 ml heavy cream
- 100 ml milk
- 400 g dark chocolate
- 50 g butter
- 1 chocolate buttercream icing
- 1 chocolate ganache
- 3 chocolate glazed donut
- 1 Ferrero Rochers
- 1 KitKat balls
- 1 chocolate bars
- 1 shredded chocolate

## Instructions

1. Heat 200 ml of heavy cream and 100 ml of milk until it boils.
2. Pour the mixture over 400 g of dark chocolate and mix until melted.
3. Add 50 g of butter and mix well.
4. Put the chocolate cake on a display board and spread the chocolate mixture.
5. Layer the chocolate cake with buttercream icing and smooth around the edges.
6. Pipe more buttercream icing to cover the sides and smooth it out.
7. Pipe chocolate ganache around the edge, letting it drip down the sides and cover the top too.
8. Decorate with chocolate glazed donuts, Ferrero Rochers, KitKat balls, and chocolate bars using the buttercream icing as glue.
9. For the second decoration idea, cut out the center of some chocolate cakes.
10. Cover a whole chocolate cake with buttercream icing and smooth around the edges.
11. Place the ring of cake on top, and fill the middle with chocolate ganache.
12. Cover the top with shredded chocolate, pipe chocolate ganache on top with a decorative piping nozzle, and stick on Ferrero Rochers chocolates.
13. Add more chocolate ganache around the bottom of the cake.

## Equipment

- whisk
- bowl
- spatula
- piping bag
- cake stand
- knife

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpVibOagerk
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/260055e2-3bb2-453a-9b1c-c77ffce6ca3a
- Extracted: 2025-03-02

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