Mud Cake

Posted for a request. This is one of the few cakes I bake. It's moist, dense and keeps well and comes from the Australian Women's Weekly cookbook Cakes and Slices.

• Ready In: 1 hr 35 mins
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 250  g butter
• 150  g dark chocolate, chopped
• 2  cups sugar
• 1  cup hot water
• 1⁄3 cup  whiskey
• 4  teaspoons dry instant coffee
• 1 1⁄2 cups plain flour (all purpose)
• 1⁄4 cup self-raising flour
• 1⁄4 cup cocoa powder
• 2  eggs, lightly beaten

Directions

1. Grease a 23cm slab pan, line the bottom with paper, grease the paper.
2. Combine butter, chocolate, sugar, water, whisky and coffee in a double saucepan or a heatproof bowl, stir over hot water until the chocolate is melted and mixture smooth; cool to luke warm.
3. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl, stir in the sifted flours and cocoa, then the eggs.
4. it's quite a thin batter, so don't panic!
5. Pour into the prepared tin and bake in a moderately slow oven for about 1 1/4 hours.
6. Stand 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
7. Serve dusted with sifted icing (confectioner's) sugar, and whipped cream if you wish.