Best Chocolate Mud Cake Recipe ever.

[wickedcherub]

Hmm, now what's been happening since LJ has been down?

It was my brother's 21st. He had a big party and he asked me to bake him a cake. I made the most delicious chocolate mud cake ever made. I had high hopes and wild dreams about decorating this amazing cake, but like all of my projects, things came up and I didn't get to finish it.

So... I ended up having to slather the thing in Betty Crocker frosting (I know) and stick some strawberries on.

The recipe is my SIL Chloe's, who bakes cakes for people's weddings and birthdays. She's tweaked it many many times and I swear it's pretty much perfect.



Look, it's my family! Check out that bunch of flowers, 99c from the supermarket. Bargain. Check out my dress, $6 from the op shop! Super bargain! Also Liam's preppy khaki pants, $10, second hand Baby Gap, and his Marks and Spencer sweater, $7 second hand. Oh yeah, I CAN BE POOR.

Anyway, here's the recipe.



Ingredients:

220g butter
220g dark chocolate, chopped. (Use Cadbury dark chocolate, or anything with approx 50% cocoa, not too high or cake will be bitter)
25g coffee granules (Moccona medium roast keeps things balanced)
125g self raising flour
125g plain flour
50g cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
480g caster sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten
7 teaspoons vegetable oil (not olive oil!)
100ml buttermilk

1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees C. Grease and line tin (round 8 inch) with a collar that extends an inch above top of tin.

2. Put butter, chocolate and coffee in saucepan with 160ml water and stir over low heat until melted, then remove from heat.

3. Sift the flour, cocoa and bicarb into large bowl. Stir in sugar and make a well in the cake. Add the combined egg, oil and buttermilk AND chocolate mixture, stirring with a large spoon until completely combined.

4. Pour into prepared tin and bake for 1hr 40 min or until the centre of the cake comes out clean, though it may be sticky. Leave the cake in the tin until cold.

I was originally going to cover the cake in a ganache, so for that recipe,

Chocolate Ganache recipe:

600ml single(pure) cream.
600g dark chocolate (been told Whittaker's is the go here)

Enjoy!

Comments

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Liam and your brother look alike.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

:) Sometimes I think so - it's easy to say because my brother doesn't look very Vietnamese. He and I actually looked the same when we were younger, I just had longer hair, so it is probably my features that are shining through there.

Also - Liam looks EXACTLY like baby!Adam. Except for the colouring. And the little asian corners of his eyes. People marvel at it all the time - 'Omg. You are a splitting image of your father! Except Asian! Mini Asian Adam!'

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

'Omg. You are a splitting image of your father! Except Asian! Mini Asian Adam!'

Heeee, that's so cute. Nathaniel looks like Michael, but with my eyes. My MIL brought over pictures of M at 4 months this weekend I was marveling over how much they look like twins. "You look just like your Daddy but with my eyes stuck in your face!"

[starfish11.livejournal.com]

Your family is cute! And that cake looks really yummy. I also have to say you are the bargain QUEEN! Especially funny because when I was looking at the photo I was seriously thinking about how that was a nice dress and you look so well put together for having a baby, and then you wrote about what a bargain it was!

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

wow sounds rich but I think I shall try it sometime. :)

[thawrecka]

That's a really cute dress.