Mud Cake

Name: Mud Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 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

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Recipe by JustJanS

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: 1hr 35mins

YIELD: 1 cake

UNITS: US

INGREDIENTS

Nutrition

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

Grease a 23cm slab pan, line the bottom with paper, grease the paper.
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.
Transfer the mixture to a large bowl, stir in the sifted flours and cocoa, then the eggs.
it's quite a thin batter, so don't panic!
Pour into the prepared tin and bake in a moderately slow oven for about 1 1/4 hours.
Stand 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
Serve dusted with sifted icing (confectioner's) sugar, and whipped cream if you wish.

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