To-Die-For Chocolate Mud Cake

This is my mum's best-ever mud cake - worth working across broken glass for, as they say! :-)

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Serves: 10
• Yields: 1 mud cake

Ingredients

• 250  g unsalted butter
• 200  g dark chocolate
• 2  cups sugar
• 1 1⁄4 cups hot water
• 1  cup plain flour
• 1⁄2 cup self-raising flour
• 1⁄4 cup  cocoa
• 2  eggs, beaten
• 100  g dark chocolate (for icing)
• 2  tablespoons  cream (for icing)

Directions

1. Melt butter & chocolate with sugar and cocoa in large pan. Heat gently till well combined; stir in hot water; cool.
2. Sift flours together and stir in beaten eggs.
3. Bake in a lined cake tin in oven at 170 degrees Celcius for 1 hour.
4. Stand 5 - 10 minutes before turning out from cake tin.
5. Melt dark chocolate over gentle heat, stir in cream and mix well to make icing.
6. Ice mudcake when cool.