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Recipe: Chocolate Fudge Cake

A rich, gooey fudge cake recipe that will make you very popular among your chocoholic friends.

Ingredients

For the cake
  • 55g cocoa powder
  • 125ml boiling water
  • 185g butter, softened
  • 300g soft brown sugar
  • 3 eggs (medium), beaten
  • 175g sour cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla paste
  • 200g plain flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda

    • For the fudge frosting
  • 200g butter, softened
  • 150g icing sugar
  • 150g dark chocolate

    • Special equipment
  • 2 x18cm sandwich tins

    • Method

    1. Preheat the oven to 160°C (fan assisted). Grease and line the base of the cake tins with baking parchment paper.

    2. Mix the cocoa powder with the boiling water to create a paste. Allow to cool.

    3. Cream the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and gradually add the beaten eggs.

    4. Sift the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda together and carefully fold into the creamed mixture.

    5. Add sour cream and vanilla extract to the cooled cocoa paste, and gently fold into the mixture.

    6. Divide the mixture between the two tins. Bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes, until firm to the touch.

    7. Leave in the tin to cool before turning onto a wire rack.

    To make the fudge frosting

    1. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie. Stir until half the chocolate has melted and remove from the heat. Allow the remainder of the chocolate to melt as the mixture cools.

    2. In a separate bowl, cream together the butter and icing sugar with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually incorporate the cooled melted chocolate into the creamed mixture.

    3. Once the cake has cooled completely, sandwich the two cakes together with a third of the fudge frosting. Top the cake with the remaining frosting.