recipe: Chocolate Mud Cake

...and here's the cake

I wanted to make something special for the double celebration of my sister's anniversary and our brother-in-law's birthday. I found this recipe that I had saved in my Word files on my computer...for some reason I didn't write the source, and I just can't recall where I got it from. So, if you're the owner of this recipe, thank you so much.

** Edited to add: Ashwin dug up the source and here it is on Katja and Minna's blog Nestled In. **
Edited to add: Katja and Minna closed their blog, so the link is no longer valid.

I loved making it, it's really super simple, and it comes out really rich and dark, even though we don't get any chocolate labeled just "dark chocolate" as one does in the baking section in the US, just as one finds "semisweet" or "bittersweet" chocolates. Here, they are in cocoa percentages, so I selected a 72% dark chocolate for the cake and a 55% dark chocolate for the frosting. Next time, I think I will go for 60-65% for the cake. It's a rich cake in terms of butter as well...I try to stick to cakes that use about 100gms of butter usually, and this was double.



Chocolate (mud) cake Recipe

Dough:
• 200 grams of butter
• 200 grams of dark chocolate
• 4 eggs
• 2 decilitres of sugar…200ml by volume
• 1.5 decilitres of wheat flour….150ml by volume
• 1 tea-spoon of baking powder
• 4 table-spoons of cacao powder (for baking)

Frosting:
• 150 grams of dark chocolate
• 1 decilitres of cream...100ml by volume
• 1 table-spoon of butter

1. Melt the butter in a pot and add chocolate. Mix until the chocolate has entirely melted.
2. Whip the eggs with sugar.
3. Mix the flour, the baking powder and the cacao powder.
4. Add the melted chocolate into the egg foam and mix carefully.
5. Strain the flour into the dough and mix (still, carefully).
6. Pour the dough into a cake tin (that is greased and dredged).
7. Bake about 45 minutes at 175° Celsius.

After the cake is ready, make the frosting.
1. Heat the cream in a pot (don’t let it boil!).
2. Add the butter and the dark chocolate.
3. Stir until the frosting is even.
4. Let the frosting cool for a while and then spread it on the cake.


And then dig in :-)

Comments

Pea said…
looks very yumm!!
MizThreefivesix said…
oh my goodness, this is a killer! must try it out.
hitch writer said…
Geeeeez... your putting such pics !!!!!!! drooool !!!! :P :P :P
Ashwin said…
Here is the source Shalini :)

-Ashwin
~mE said…
omg...SIN :)
Shalini said…
Thanks all!

Ashwin, wow, so impressed that you found it. And so very interesting, since I read Katja and Minna's blog and follow Katja's flickr stream on a daily basis.

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