Chocolate mud cake
6 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake: | ||
| 250 | grams | Butter |
| 1½ | cup | Hot Water |
| 2 | cups | Castor Sugar |
| ¼ | cup | Cocoa |
| 1 | tablespoon | Instant Coffee |
| 200 | grams | Dark Cooking Chocolate |
| 1½ | cup | SR Flour |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| Vanilla | ||
| Icing: | ||
| 125 | grams | Dark Cooking Chocolate |
| 125 | grams | Unsalted Butter |
Directions
1) Melt butter in double boiler, stir in combined coffee and hot water, then chocolate & sugar. Stir until smooth. 2) Sifted dry ingredients into 3 lots. 3) Place melted ingredients into electric mixer bowl and gradually beat in dry sifted ingredients individually.
4) Add eggs and vanilla and beat well. 5) Greased and base line a 25 cm cake tin & pour in mixture. 6) Bake in slow oven (150 deg, C) for approx 2,5 hours. 7) Stand for 5 minutes before turning out of tin.
Icing: 8) Melt chocolate and butter in double boiler and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. 9) Pour over cold cake and smooth out.
Note Cooking time may vary. Cake is cooked when skewer comes out reasonably clean.