Hello Lovely Readers!
How are you doing?
The Festive season seems to be over 😔, but you don’t need a festival to splurge over the mud cake I am talking about. 😇
Don’t worry this recipe is ‘No Fail ‘. You don’t need special baking skills, all you need is desire to bake, an oven and the ingredients. You will fall in love with the rich moist flavour and the softness of the cake – that I bet won’t be easy to share.😜
I know usually the recipes you find online are not reliable but this one is. I promise. And dont worry about expenses, its going to be pretty light on your pocket.
HEAVENLY CHOCOLATE MUDCAKE
What You Require :
An Oven: preheated at 300°F or 150°c
A Stove
Pan with a cup of water
Heat safe bowl: Big enough to fit over the pan
Measuring Cup, whisk etc.
Baking Dish: About 8 cm in diameter and 10 cm deep
Parchment paper/baking paper/the alternative*
A Knife, to check if the cake is done.
*The alternative: grease your baking dish with butter and lightly dust flour over it – A thin layer will be formed which will prevent the cake from sticking to the dish.
Ingredients :
(in order of need)
1 1/4 Cups or 250g – Unsalted Butter
8 ounces or 250g – Chocolate
2 3/4 Cups or 550g – Granulated Sugar
2 tablespoon – Instant Coffee Powder
3/4 Cup or 175ml – Hot Water
1/2 Cup or 125ml – Milk
4 – Medium sized Eggs
2 Cups or 300g – All Purpose Flour
1/2 Cup or 55g – Cocoa Powder
1/2 teaspoon – Baking Soda
2 teaspoon – Baking Powder
1 teaspoon – Salt
2 tablespoons – Vegetable Oil
Method:
Preheat your oven as mentioned before.
Step 1:
On the Stove, place a pan with a cup of water, keep it on low heat. Over the pan, place your mixing bowl.
This is done to create an indirect source of low heat, inorder to prevent the ingredients from burning or cooking. We just want the ingredients to melt.
Step 2:
To the bowl, Add Butter, Sugar and chocolate. Let it all melt.
Step 3:
In a cup, add instant coffee to the hot water to create a solution. And, add this to your mixing bowl (step 1 and 2)
Step 4:
Once all the ingredients have melted into a uniform smooth mixture, take your mixing bowl off the Stove.
(Melting may take time, so to save time you can do step 7, while monitoring the bowl over the pan. You can come back to this, when you are done with step 7 )
Step 5:
Add Milk to the bowl and mix it in, let the mixture cool for a minute.
Step 6:
Now add the eggs and use a blender or a whisk to blend it in. Make sure you do this before you go ahead with the next step.
Step 7:
In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients – combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, salt. Mix well.
Step 8:
Add the mix from step 7, to the batter of step 6.
I prefer Adding a little amount of the dry mix and mixing it well. Then followed by little more amount and so on. This makes it easier to mix.
Step 9:
Pour in vegetable oil and use the hand blender one Last time for about 2 minutes.
This will make sure your batter is homogenous.
Step 10:
Keep your baking dish ready with baking paper (or the alternative).
Add your batter to the baking dish, fill it about 1 cm less. This will prevent your batter from spilling out, when it begins to rise.
Step 11:
Place the baking dish in the oven and bake it for 1.5 hours maximum at 300°F or 150°c.
Keep a Check on your cake with a knife. For a perfect bake, your knife will come out clean, when poked deep in the cake at the centre point.
Step 12:
Once the cake is done, all it to cool for good 15 minutes. Take it out and enjoy!
I covered mine in Chocolate Ganache cream.
HACKS :
Chocolate – I used Dairy Milk Silk which is fairly sweet enough, so I reduced the amount of sugar I put in the batter.
Butter – I used Amul Butter, which is salted. So I just skipped adding salt to the batter.
Love,
J
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