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Chocolate Mud Cake
An easy to make clasic that is rich in flavour and dark in colour.
Jump to the methodAdded September 2011
An easy to make classic.
You'll need
- 200g Dark Chocolate Buttons
- 120 g Butter
- 5 Eggs
- 150g White Sugar
- 90g Plain Flour
For the Icing
- 175g Dark Chocolate Buttons
- ½ cup of cream
Method
Preheat your oven to 170 Degres Celsius (Fan Forced Oven). Grease a 22cm round cake tin.
Place the chocolate in a bowl and melt it. Once the chocolate has melted, add the butter, piece by piece, stirring with a metal spoon until smooth.
See our How to Melt Chocolate page if you are unsure how to melt chocolate properly.
Melt chocolate 
Egg yolk and sugar mix Separate the egg yolks from the whites. In the bowl containing the egg yolks, add the sugar and mix well.
Add the melted chocolate and butter to egg mixture and stir well. After mixing thoroughly add the flour to the bowl and again mix well.
Add chocolate to mix 
Egg whites beaten to soft peak Beat the egg whites to a soft peak.
Carefully fold the egg whites into the egg-chocolate mix. Stir gently to combine.
Fold egg whites into mix Spoon into prepared pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Once cooked, stand cake for 10 minutes. Then turns out onto a wire rack and leave it to cool completely.
Iced cake To make the icing:
Place the chocolate and the cream in microwave safe bowl. Microwave uncovered at 70% power for a couple of minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until it is completely smooth. Next, simply spread the icing on the top and sides of the cake.
