Chocolate Mocha Mud Cake
Chocolate Mud Cake recipe
Ingredients
Cake | |||
250 | grams |
butter
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1 ½ | cups |
water
hot |
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2 | cups |
sugar, superfine
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¼ | cup |
cocoa powder
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1 | tablespoon |
instant coffee
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200 | grams |
cooking chocolate
dark |
* |
1 ½ | cups |
all-purpose flour
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2 | large |
eggs
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1 | x |
vanilla extract
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* |
Icing | |||
125 | grams |
cooking chocolate
dark |
* |
125 | grams |
butter, unsalted
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Directions
Melt butter in double boiler, stir in combined coffee and hot water, then chocolate and sugar.
Stir until smooth.
Sift dry ingredients into 3 lots.
Place melted ingredients into electric mixer bowl and gradually beat in dry sifted ingredients individually.
Add eggs and vanilla and beat well.
Greased and base line a 25 cm cake tin and pour in mixture.
Bake in slow oven (150 deg, C) for approx 2½ hours.
Stand for 5 minutes before turning out of tin.
Icing: Melt chocolate and butter in double boiler and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth.
Pour over cold cake and smooth out.
Note: The cake can also be made into mini cakes. Just need to reduce baking time accordingly.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 120g (4.2 oz)