When I first started cake decorating, I wanted to find a
chocolate mud cake that was easy to bake but above all, delicious. Well, this
recipe from Best Recipes was the first chocolate mud cake I came
across and it’s an absolute winner! I’ve tried a few other popular recipes and
I keep coming back to this one time and time again. Jessica Harris from the
wonderful blog Jessica Harris Cake Design also loves this recipe and wrote a
great post about it here.
Mud cakes are cooked low and slow – the oven temperature is
much lower than a typical sponge cake and they’re cooked over a few hours. They
have a tight crumb making them quite dense and that makes them ideal for
carving. The mud cake is popular in Australia and the cake of choice for
many decorators. They can be baked ahead and actually improve in taste and
texture over a few days. I find this recipe reaches it’s “sweet spot” at about
day 3 or 4. So for a weekend party, I’ll bake the cake on Tuesday or Wednesday.
If you’d like to get ahead with the cake and bake it earlier and freeze the
cake, you can do that too.
Ingredients
- 250 grams Unsalted butter chopped
- 200 grams Dark chocolate pieces
- 2 cups Caster sugar
- 1 1/3 cups water
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full recipe : www.lovecakecreate.com.au
