White Chocolate Mud Cake is a very special cake fitting for a birthday cake, engagement cake or even a wedding cake.
Who doesn’t love a luscious and creamy cake? White Chocolate Mud Cake is the ultimate sweet treat for any occasion. Its light and airy texture melts in your mouth like a dream, the gooey white choc centre oozing with delight. If you’ve never had the pleasure of tasting this deliciousness before, it’s time to treat yourself! I promise you won’t regret it – White Chocolate Mud Cake really is the best cake ever!
I just know that adding chocolate to cake batter makes for a rich, buttery cake with such an incredibly desirable texture. Finally, once you add a topping that is also prepared with real chocolate, you are already in chocolate paradise.
You can make it pretty like this!
Not as dense as a traditional chocolate cake, but very decadent nonetheless.
Method
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Pre Heat oven to 170 degrees.
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Grease a 20 cm round cake tin.
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Line with baking paper.
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Combine butter, chocolate, sugar and milk in a medium saucepan.
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Stir over a low heat without boiling until smooth.
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Transfer the mixture to a large bowl and cool until it reaches room temperature.
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Next, fold in the sifted flours and add the vanilla extract and egg.
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Pour the batter into the greased cake tin and bake for about 1 hour and 30 minutes at 170 degrees.
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Let the cake sit in the tin for 5 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool.
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Ice with White Chocolate Ganache when cake is cool.
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White Chocolate Ganache
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In a small saucepan or microwave proof jug, add the cream and bring to the boil.
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Pour over the chopped white chocolate in a small bowl and mix until chocolate melts.
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Refrigerate but stir every 1/2 hour until the mixture is spreadable.
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Spread onto a cold cake.
Recipe Hints and Tips:
- White Chocolate Mud Cake can be frozen.
- Allow to cool to room temperature before double wrapping in plastic wrap and freezing for up to two months.
