The Ultimate White Chocolate Mud Cake

I was looking for a white chocolate mud cake recipe but there was always something not quite right with each recipe so I'v come up with this little gem. It was the most AMAZING cake! It is best eaten on the day of making it and does not refrigerate very well as it goes quite solid but in saying this I did refrigerate mine for a couple of hours after it was finished and turned out fine as it was still warm in the middle. The Raspberry sauce Is optional but compliments the cake REALLY REALLY well.

• Ready In: 3 hrs
• Serves: 10

Ingredients

• 250  g butter
• 200  g white chocolate
• 200  ml water
• 1 1⁄2 cups caster sugar
• 1 3⁄4 cups plain flour
• 1  cup self-rising flour
• 2  eggs, lightly beaten
• 1  teaspoon vanilla essence
• 125  ml  cream
• 300  g white chocolate, chopped coarsely

• Raspberry Sauce

• 4  cups raspberries
• 1⁄2 cup water
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 2  tablespoons cornstarch

Directions

1. Preheat ovem to 175°C
2. Heat the butter, chocolate, water and sugar in a saucepan stirring until melted and well combined.
3. Sift flours together into a bowl and stir in the chocolate mixture. Add the eggs and vanilla.
4. Pour into a greased and base lined 20cm round spring-form cake tin.
5. Bake in the oven for 1 hour until cooked. Test cake with a metal skewer.
6. Cool cake until it is ready to be iced. While doing this make the icing and sauce.
7. ICING: bring cream to the boil, and then pour over the chocolate in a small bowl, stirring until the chocolate melts.
8. Cover, refrigerate, stirring occasionally for 30 minutes, or until spreadable.
9. Place cake on a serving plate and spread with white chocolate icing.
10. RASPBERRY SAUCE: Crush the raspberries with water in a saucepan.
11. Add sugar and cornstarch.
12. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
13. Reduce heat and simmer 2 minutes.
14. Push through a strainer & Cool down.
15. Put the sauce into a ziplock bag, snip off the bottom and squiggle on top of the iced cake.