Opera Cake

This cake combines the best of both worlds: addictive vegan coffee butter cream and bitter-sweet dark chocolate cream. And in between there are layers of irresistible almond cake.

Opera Cake [Vegan]

Ingredients

For the Almond Coffee Dough:

• 4 cups wheat flour
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/3 tablespoons baking powder
• 1/3 cups ground almonds
• 1 cup sunflower oil
• 2 cups almond milk
• 2 tablespoons of instant coffee powder

For the Coffee Butter Cream:

• 1 cup vegan margarine
• 7 ounces icing
• sugar, vanilla, 30g water, 2 teaspoons of instant coffee powder

For the Ganache:

• 14 ounces dark chocolate,
• 3/4 cup almond milk

Preparation

For the Almond Coffee Dough:

1. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and ground almonds. Stir the instant coffee powder into the almond milk. Stir the sunflower oil and almond milk into the dry ingredients. Pour the resulting dough into a prepared 24 - 26cm springform pan.
2. Bake at 350°F for about 60 minutes. Let cool completely.

For the Coffee Butter Cream:

1. Mix soft margarine with icing sugar and a pinch of vanilla until frothy. Dissolve the coffee powder in the water. Mix this under the butter cream.

For the Ganache:

1. Gently heat chocolate with almond milk in a saucepan. As soon as the chocolate begins to melt, remove from the heat and let it completely dissolve while stirring.

To Make The Cake:

1. Divide the cooled almond coffee cake into 3 equally thin bases with a large knife. Put the bottom bottom back in the springform pan. Spread half of the coffee butter cream on top. Put the second almond base on top and coat it with half of the ganache. Put on the third almond base and cover with the remaining coffee cream.
2. Chill the layered cake until the coffee cream has hardened. Then spread the rest of the ganache. If it has become too solid while resting in the pot, you can warm it up again before glazing.

Notes

Order of the layers from bottom to top: almond base, coffee cream, almond base, ganache, almond base, coffee cream, ganache.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-recipe/opera-cake-vegan/