Chocolate Mud Cake

I baked a lot lately. Why not? I bake when there is a reason to celebrate. I love to bake a cake to share with everyone that enjoys it.

I baked this Donna Hay's Chocolate Mud cake yesterday for the mums who attended little Miss C birthday party. The kids had the pink vanilla cake and the mums sat down for a cuppa and a thick slice of this sinfully dense mud cake.

Chocolate Mud Cake Recipe

(Adapted from Donna Hay Chocolate Cookbook)

Serves 10

Ingredients

375 g (13 1/2 oz) butter, softened

1 1/3 cups (230 g / 7 7/8 oz) brown sugar

3 eggs

2 cups (300g / 10 1/2 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted

1/2 tsp baking powder

2/3 cup (80 g / 3 oz) cocoa powder, double sifted

200 g (7 oz) dark chocolate, melted

3/4 cup (180 ml / 6 fl oz) milk

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 160C (320F).
2. Place the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat for 8-10 minutes, or until the mixture is light and creamy.
3. Gradually add the eggs and beat well.
4. Fold through the flour, baking powder, cocoa and melted chocolate and stir in the milk.
5. Spoon the mixture into a 22cm (8 1/2 in) round cake tin lined with non-stick baking paper and bake for 1 1/4 hours or until cooked when tested with a skewer.
6. Cool in the tin.
7. To serve, dust with cocoa and serve with cream.