Golden Cake with Chocolate Glaze Recipes

I love baking cakes but I am not a fan of decoration it. So the cake you see here are mostly naked without any dressing on it :) Occasionally I will top it off with some fresh fruits or chocolate glaze on it. I baked this wonderful plain yellow cake and I just sandwich it with some strawberry preserve and top it off with some chocolate glaze.

Ingredients for Cake

2 cups of flour
1 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of baking soda
1/2 tsp of salt
1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter
1 1/4 cup of sugar
4 eggs
3/4 cup of buttermilk
1 tsp of vanilla
1 tbsp of orange zest

Ingredients for glaze :

120 ml of heavy cream
120 ml light corn syrup
12 oz of bitter sweet chocolate - chopped

1/4 cup of preserve - microwave for 30 second

1) Pre-heat oven to 350 degree F. Prepare and grease an 8" round baking pan or an 8" x 8" square pan and set it aside.
2) Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a mixer beat the butter until light. Gradually add in the sugar and beat until well blended.
3) Add in one egg at a time, beating well after each edition. Add in orange zest and vanilla.
4) Reduce the mixer speed to slow and add in flour into the butter mixture in 3 batches alternately with buttermilk begining with flour and end with flour.
5) Once the mixture is combined transfer the batter to the baking pan and bake until the top is golden brown and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. This will take around 40-45 minutes. Let it cool completely.
6) For the glaze combine the cream and corn syrup in a heavy saucepan and bring it to slow simmer over medium heat. Reduce the heat to low and then put in the chocolate and continue to stir until the chocolate melted and smooth.
7) Remove from heat and let it stand until lukewarm about 10 minutes. The glaze should be thick but pourable.
8) Cut the cake into half and spread some jam between the layer and put the top layer on. Pour the lukewarm chocolate glaze on top of the cake. Let the glaze set a bit before serving.

Note : My glaze was not as thick as I only had about 9 oz of chocolate in my pantry and I am too lazy to go out and get more :)