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)
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
- Preheat the oven to 160C (320F).
- 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.
- Gradually add the eggs and beat well.
- Fold through the flour, baking powder, cocoa and melted chocolate and stir in the milk.
- 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.
- Cool in the tin.
- To serve, dust with cocoa and serve with cream.