MILK CHOCOLATE MUD CAKE

I have already made dark chocolate mud cake and white chocolate mud cake, it's time for milk chocolate! As always with a mud cake, this cake is rich and moist, absolutely delicious. This is my version of a brown cat cake for today's special day - Cat Day :)

Ingredients for the cake :

• 250 g butter
• 200 g milk chocolate
• 200 g sugar
• 180 ml milk
• 260 g flour
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• pinch of salt

Place the butter, milk, chocolate and sugar in a sauce pan and heat it up on low heat. Stir all the time till all is melted and combined, then let the mixture cool for 10 minutes.

Sieve the flour and baking powder into the mixture and mix gently with a whisk. Lightly beat the eggs and whisk them gently into the mixture.

Pour the batter into a 23 cm baking pan and bake at 180°C (350°F) for about 1 hour and 10 minutes. The time may vary so check the cake with a skewer after an hour. Let the cake cool completly before decorating.

Ingredients for chocolate ganache :

• 300 g milk chocolate
• 100 ml whipping cream

Chop the chocolate into small pieces. Heat the cream till hot and pour over the chocolate. Let it sit for a minute then stirr to dissolve the chocolate. To help it dissolve you can place the ganache into a microwave for 20-30 seconds. Let the ganache cool completly and place it in a freezer for 15 minutes. Whip the ganache with a hand mixer till pale and fluffy.

This is a perfect, light version of a chocolate mud cake, give it a try. And of course Happy Cat Day! :)