Chocolate mud cake

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Ingredients

24 slice(s)

200 g dark chocolate
250 g Butter, room temp
1 level tbsp instant coffee, Or 2 shots of coffee
150 g water, Or liqueur like Bailey’s or Tia Maria
340 g plain flour
60g g cocoa
0.5 tsp Bi Carb Soda
490 g sugar
4 eggs, large
2 tbsp EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
2 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
200 g buttermilk
1 heaped teaspoon baking powder

Ganache

300 g dark chocolate, grated
100 g Thickend cream

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6

4h 0min

Preparation 2h 30min

Baking/Cooking
7

easy

Preparation
8
- Recipe is created for
  TM 31
9
Baking Birthday Party Cake Dessert

Recipe's preparation

Preheat oven to 150oC
Grease and line a deep 23cm round tin (with lining going higher than the rim)
Place broken pieces of chocolate in TM bowl and turn to speed 5 and slowly increase to speed 7.
Add butter, coffee, sugar and water in TM bowl 37oC, 5mins, Speed 2.
Check that all mixture is melted together.
Add remaining ingredients (except eggs) mix 60 seconds turning up to speed 6. Scrape slides and mix another 20 seconds on Speed 5.
Wit’s blades running on Speed 4, add eggs to lid with cup in place. Check for egg shell and let through.
Mix for 1 minute, Speed 3-4
pour mixture into cake tin. Ensure it is not filled to rim.
Bake for about 1 hour and 30minutes. Insert a skewer into the centre of the cake to test (mud cakes should be moist and will have some residue in skewer, it should not be wet).
Remove from oven
cover with clean towel and allow to cool, remove from tin and refrigerate.

Make ganache
Add chocolate in pieces to TM bowl, turn speed slowly to speed 7
Add cream and heat at 50oC, 2 mins, Speed 3.
Allow to cool before spreading ganache over cake then refrigerate.
NOTE: mudcake can be prepared up to one week before it is needed and also freezes well. Ganache is spread more easily when the cake has been refrigerated.

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Tip

TWEAKS by Lush have been addedSubstitute 100g of water for Liqueur of your choice Best Made the day before, wrap in glad wrap, then foil

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