Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mud cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mud Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mud Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mud cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mud Cake:
- Make ready 250 g Butter
- Prepare 200 g Dark Chocolate
- Prepare 2 cups (*500ml) Caster Sugar
- Get 1 cup Hot Water OR Milk *Milk will make the cake lighter colour
- Make ready 2 Eggs *lightly whisked
- Make ready 1 & 1/2 cups Self-Raising Flour
- Take 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
- Get 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract OR 1 tablespoon Rum
- Get <Chocolate Ganache>
- Take 200 g Dark Chocolate *chopped
- Get 2/3 cup (*about 200ml) Cream
Instructions to make Mud Cake:
- Preheat oven to 160°C. Line base and sides of a 22cm round cake tin with baking paper. *20cm tin can be used, but line the sides with baking paper 8-10cm high.
- Place Butter in a saucepan, heat over medium-low heat until melted. Add Dark Chocolate, Sugar and Hot Water (OR Milk). Heat, stirring constantly, until smooth.
- Transfer the chocolate mixture to a large bowl and cool for 10 minutes. Add lightly whisked Eggs and Vanilla OR Rum, stir to combine. Sift in Flour and Cocoa Powder, and stir until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin. Bake for 80 to 90 minutes or until cooked. If the top gets too dark, cover with foil. Let it stand for 10 minutes in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.
- To make Chocolate Ganache, heat Cream in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, add chopped Dark Chocolate, and stir until smooth. Transfer to a bowl and cool until thick enough to spread over the cake.
- Spread the Chocolate Ganache over the cooled cake and decorate as you like. *I used to decorate it with ‘Smarties’, colourful sugar-coated chocolate, for my son.
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