To-Die-For Chocolate Mud Cake |
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Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 60 Minutes |
Ready In: 75 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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This is my mum's best-ever mud cake - worth working across broken glass for, as they say! :-) Ingredients:
250 g unsalted butter |
200 g dark chocolate |
2 cups sugar |
1 1/4 cups hot water |
1 cup plain flour |
1/2 cup self-raising flour |
1/4 cup cocoa |
2 eggs, beaten |
100 g dark chocolate (for icing) |
2 tablespoons cream (for icing) |
Directions:
1. Melt butter & chocolate with sugar and cocoa in large pan. Heat gently till well combined; stir in hot water; cool.
2. Sift flours together and stir in beaten eggs.
3. Bake in a lined cake tin in oven at 170 degrees Celcius for 1 hour.
4. Stand 5 - 10 minutes before turning out from cake tin.
5. Melt dark chocolate over gentle heat, stir in cream and mix well to make icing.
6. Ice mudcake when cool.
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