Chocolate opera cake recipe

Learn how to make an amazing classic opera cake with detailed tips, images, and a video to make it successful from the comfort of your home.

While making Opera Cake from scratch will have you spend a hefty chunk of time in the kitchen, I swear it's so decadent, it's totally worth the effort.

Opera Cake is a rich French Cake, that uses one of the most loved flavor combinations, chocolate and coffee. The cake is consisting of layers of almond sponge cake soaked in coffee syrup, filled with coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache and topped with chocolate glaze.

10 delicious recipes for making the famously complicated and time-consuming Opera Cake - the best food to enjoy while watching an opera, surely!

A modern take on a French classic, this decadent Opera cake is rich, chocolatey, and packed with espresso flavor. | livforcake.com

MISTLETOE travelled to Dunbrody Country House Hotel in Co Wexford to watch me make this celebrated Opéra-style Chocolate Cake. This delicious treat is an ideal dessert for the party season and best of all, it freezes like a dream so you can make it now and enjoy later.

I created this Mini Opera Cake recipe because, let's face it, a full sized dessert is just too dang big. Layer coffee soaked joconde with coffee buttercream and chocolate ganache for the perfect bite of cake. This classic French dessert is notoriously complicated, so I've broken it down across several days for you! #bakesandblunders #foodblogger #foodphotography #cake

Opera Cake is a classic French pastry that combines a delicate almond sponge cake with the silkiest coffee buttercream and ganache. Pure perfection!

Easy recipe for the traditional Opera cake, using vanilla sponge cake soaked with coffee, frosted with a coffee French buttercream and garnished with chocolate ganache!

Elegant Opera Cake with almond sponge, coffee syrup, buttercream, and chocolate ganache. Perfect for special occasions. Easy to make ahead!