Milk Chocolate Mud Cake
250g unsalted butter, chopped
200g Cooking Chocolate, chopped
1 tablespoon instant coffee powder
1 1/2 cups boiling water
1 3/4 cups caster sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups self raising flour, sifted
1/2 cup Cocoa, sifted
1. Preheat oven to 160ºC conventional 140ºC fan forced. Lightly grease and line the base of 28cm round cake pan.
2. Combine butter and chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and melt over a low heat. Dissolve coffee in boiling water. Add coffee and sugar to chocolate mixture and stir to dissolve sugar.
3. Transfer to bowl and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Using an electric mixer gradually add eggs. Then flour and cocoa. Mix a further 2 minutes or until evenly combined. Pour into cake pan and bake for 1 – 1 1/4 hours. Test with skewer inserted into the middle of the cake. Cool in pan for 30 minutes, before turning onto wire rack. Enjoy with berries.