HALLOWEEN CHOCOLATE MUD CAKE

I am absolutely in love with this PERFECT chocolate cake! To make it extremely chocolatey, I have added whipping cream mixed with chocolate, cherry jam and topped it with chocolate ganache. Although, this cake is perfect by it's self aswell.

NOTE: This recipy is for two layers of cake baked in seperate    23cm trays, if you want just one layer, use half of these ingredients or a bigger tray.

Ingredients for the cake :

• 300 g flour (all purpous)
• 250 g butter (room temp.)
• 250 g dark chocolate
• 120 ml milk
• 50 g cocoa powder
• 4 eggs
• 550 g sugar
• 30 ml vegetable oil
• 170 ml hot water
• 3 tsp instant coffe
• 1 tbsp baking soda
• 0,5 tbsp baking powder
• 0,5 tsp salt

Place a heat resistant glass bowl on a pot with simmering water. Add the butter, chocolate, sugar, coffe and hot water into the bowl and let it melt. Keep whisking the mixture untill all the ingredients are dissolved.

Remove the bowl from the pot, add milk into the hot mixture and start mixing with a mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, next add the oil.

When that is all combined, stop the mixer and sieve the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder, then start mixing on low speed for 2 minutes.

Place baking paper on the bottom of your two 23cm baking trays, fill them up with the mixture and bake at 150°C (300°F) for 2 hours.

After taking the cake out let it cool for about an hour.

Ingredients for the chocolate whipping cream :

• 250 ml whipping cream
• 45 g dark chocolate

Place the cream and the chocolate in a bowl, heat up in the microwave for 30 sec. Mix to check if the chocolate has dissolved, if not put it back in for 15 sec. and mix again. Let it cool down and place in the fridge to cool completely.

When the mixture is cold, mix on high speed for about 5 minutes till it gets a thick consistency. You can use it to layer the cake.

Ingredients for the chocolate ganache :

• 50 ml whipping cream
• 100 g dark chocolate

As with the chocolate cream above, melt the ingredients together in a microwave till the chocolate is dissolved. Spread it on top of the cake.

Enjoy the best cake the world has known! ;)