Mississippi Mud Cake

This is the ultimate mudcake not for the faint-hearted! I received this recipe from a chef I used to work with at the Left Bank restaurant in Melbourne on the weekends in my high school dayz.. Family & friends say it's the best and richest they have ever tasted , probably for CHOCOHOLICS only! *Use any simple chocolate icing recipe, it's the cake that is the main event!

• Ready In: 1 hr 30 mins
• Serves: 10-15
• Yields: 15 slices (rich)

Ingredients

• 250  g butter
• 150  g  of good dark chocolate
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  cup hot water
• 1⁄4 cup  whiskey or 1⁄4 cup Kahlua
• 1  tablespoon dry instant coffee
• 1 1⁄2 cups plain flour
• 1⁄4 cup self raising flour
• 1⁄4 cup  cocoa
• 2  eggs

Directions

1. Beat eggs and put aside for time being.
2. Preheat oven to 200°C (gas) and 180°C (fan forced).
3. Warm all wet ingredients in microwave and fold with all dry ingredients including the eggs in a bowl.
4. The secret to a great mudcake and I quote, to give the cake a good 'blast' of heat at the start of the cooking time then turn heat down to 180°C (gas) 160°C (fan forced) for the remaining half of the cooking time.
5. 30 min 200°C (gas).
6. 30 min 180°C (gas).
7. TOTAL COOKING TIME 1 HOUR.
8. 30 min 180°C (fan forced).
9. 30 min 160°C (fan forced).
10. TOTAL COOKING TIME 1 HOUR.
11. Take cake out of oven still 'sticky'.