Chocolate Cakes with Ganache Glaze

A really delicious cake made from really simple ingredients mostly found in pantry. I didn't really get the point of mixing the dry ingredients in the stand mixer and then adding the wet--the batter did not come together well in the mixer and I had to finish mixing by hand to scrape up the dry ingredients which had remained caked in the bottom of the bowl. This aside, once mixed, it's a lovely batter and it baked into beautiful baby cakes which looked fabulous once glazed. I used a mold for half spheres and filled each about 3/4's full. The cakes rose enough that I now know I should have just filled each 2/3's full. The baking time may be a little off--as I was making little cakes instead of the full-sized ones described in the recipe, I would have thought the baking time would be shortened but it was not.