Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mud cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mud Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mud Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mud cake using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mud Cake:
- Prepare 250 g Butter
- Prepare 200 g Dark Chocolate
- Take 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
- Get 1 & 1/2 cups Self-Raising Flour
- Get 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
- Prepare 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract OR 1 tablespoon Rum
- Take <Chocolate Ganache>
- Make ready 200 g Dark Chocolate *chopped
- Prepare 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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