Chocolate and coffee mudcake
2 hours 20 min
This chocolate and coffee mudcake will delight your senses! It's a dense and rich cake, great served with ice cream or whipped cream.
1 person made this
Ingredients
Makes: 1 cake
- 250g butter
- 250g plain chocolate, chopped
- 550g granulated sugar
- 175ml hot water
- 2 tablespoons instant coffee
- 125ml milk
- 4 eggs
- 30ml vegetable oil
- 300g plain flour
- 55g cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:2hr ›
Ready in:2hr20min
- Set up a double boiler using a large heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Melt butter, chocolate and sugar. Mix instant coffee and hot water together and add to the mix.
- Once all is melted and combined, take off heat and add milk. Whisk in one egg at a time using an electric whisk. Now, whisk in vegetable oil.
- Sieve in the flour, cocoa, baking powder, salt and bicarb. Mix well, making sure there are no pockets of flour. Pour into a greased 20cm (8 in) round cake tin.
- Bake in a preheated 150 C / Gas 2 oven for 2 hours.
