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Esme's Chelsea Chocolate Mud Cake

By Chelsea Sugar
Esme's Chelsea Chocolate Mud Cake
12 servings
  • 6 reviews

  • Difficulty Easy
  • Prep time 15 mins
  • Cooking time 1 hrs
  • Serves
    12
Ingredients

    1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
    1 cup milk
    1/2 cup oil
    250g dark chocolate, broken up or roughly chopped
    1 cup hot strong coffee, can be strong instant
    2 cups flour
    2 tsp baking soda
    1 tsp baking powder
    1 cup Chelsea LoGiCane™ Low GI Sugar
    1/2 cup cocoa
    2 eggs

    Chocolate Ganache Icing:
    400g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
    1 cup cream

Method

    Preheat oven to 180°C. Line the base of a 22 - 23 cm spring-form tin with non-stick baking paper and spray with non-stick baking spray.
    Mix the lemon juice with the milk and set aside for it to sour the milk.
    Place oil, chocolate and hot coffee in a microwave bowl or small saucepan and heat gently, stirring often, until chocolate is melted and the mixture smooth. Cool.
    In a large bowl, mix the flour baking soda, baking powder, sugar and cocoa.
    Mix the eggs and soured milk into the cooled chocolate mixture, combine thoroughly, and then whisk into the dry ingredients.
    Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 1 hour. When tested, fudgy crumbs will still adhere to a skewer. This is the desirable sticky mud cake consistency. Cool for 15 minutes in the tin, then turn out and cool further on a wire rack. When cold, cut the cake in half using a serrated knife, ice the centre and top with thick chocolate Ganache icing.

    Chocolate Ganache
    Place both chocolate and cream in a saucepan and stir over medium heat until chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Cool then refrigerate for 30 - 40 minutes until the mixture is a thick spreading consistency. Chill the frosted cake and serve with softly whipped cream or thick yoghurt.

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Reviews

Average Rating
46
(6 reviews)


Such an easy recipe for such a beautifully rich and decadent cake. It is now my go to cake!

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I made this cake and it tasted like it was from the ready to make packets. The family loved it.

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Perfect cake! Came out wonderful! Wasn't sure to whisk eggs first or beat with mixer with mix tho. Was a little dry would be 10/10 if moister

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Absolutely beautiful recipe, although my oven is quite hot so only cooked for 45 minutes. Is it meant to be cooked on Fan Forced or Oven Bake?

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I made this once for a cake tester, now my kids and friends have me making it all the time. Thanks so much esme for the great recipe

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this cake was full of promise - a good big cake and looked lovely, but was very dissapointing - we found it dry and crumbly. such a shame.

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