Mud Cake
- 2 teaspoons instant coffee
- 1 14 cups hot water
- 14 cup fruit juice
- 175 g baking chocolate
- 250 g unsalted butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- icing sugar (to dust)
- Put coffee, hot water and fruit juice into a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
- Add the broken chocolate and butter and stir until melted.
- Add the sugar and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
- Remove the mixture from the heat and allow to cool.
- Sift the flour and baking soda together into a large bowl and make a well in the centre.
- Beat the eggs together with the vanilla and stir into the chocolate mixture.
- Pour the chocolate mixture into the well in the dry ingredients and stir to mix.
- Pour the mixture into a well greased and floured ring tin.
- Bake at 140C for 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours until the cake has shrunk from the sides of the tin and is firm to the touch.
- Cool in the tin for 20 minutes before turning out onto a cake rack.
- Dust with icing sugar before serving.
instant coffee, water, fruit juice, baking chocolate, unsalted butter, sugar, flour, baking soda, eggs, vanilla, icing sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/mud-cake-10106 (may not work)