To-Die-For Chocolate Mud Cake
"This is my mum's best-ever mud cake - worth working across broken glass for, as they say! :-)"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 mud cake
- Serves:
- 10
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
- Melt butter & chocolate with sugar and cocoa in large pan. Heat gently till well combined; stir in hot water; cool.
- Sift flours together and stir in beaten eggs.
- Bake in a lined cake tin in oven at 170 degrees Celcius for 1 hour.
- Stand 5 - 10 minutes before turning out from cake tin.
- Melt dark chocolate over gentle heat, stir in cream and mix well to make icing.
- Ice mudcake when cool.
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Reviews
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This tasted beautiful- but the recipe wasn't right, I added only 1 cup of hot water, and it made the mix like water- completely runny. I ended up adding 3/4 cup extra plain flour, and have baked it for over 2 hours now, but it's still not cooked through at all. I'd probably try this again, but I'd only add 1/4 cup of water, which I think might be the correct amount, judging by how this mixture turned out.
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