Today we are doing a request.

I've got a request the other day for a chocolate cake.

I love chocolate cake, everyone around here loves chocolate cake,

so, I thought, you know, I'll make some.

But, I don't make ordinary chocolate cake.

So, today, we are gonna turn the volume up and we are gonna

make a delicious chocolate mud cake.

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Okay guys, chocolate mud cake, it is to die for, let me tell ya.

Now this is what you're going to need.

We are going to need some castor sugar, 2 eggs,

250 grams of unsalted butter, you're gonna need some dark chocolate,

with at least 70% cocoa, okay,

the darker the chocolate the better for this.

But 70%, say, is a pretty good one to use for this one,

so just about 70, don't go any higher than that.

We've got some cocoa powder,

we've got some plain flour,and some self rising flour.

okay, what we are gonna to first is we are gonna take our butter

and chocolate and we're gonna go over on a saucepan

and I am going to show you how to make the gooey sauce

that's going to make this mud cake unbelievable.

Okay folks, so what we are doing, we are gonna melt our butter down

in a saucepan and, we are gonna to add in our chocolate, okay,

which I've just chopped up, okay, and we've got some castor sugar here,

and I am also gonna put in some water.

Now, I know I've said before about mixing chocolate and water together,

that you've got to be very careful, that it doesn't split,

because it would ruin the chocolate.

The secret to this is getting everything on a medium temperature,

and melting everything down together.

A mud cake is all about being moist, it's a very very moist,

dense, chocolate cake. And you do need water.

A lot of people put them in water baths, and all this sort of thing,

I don't, I put the water straight in to the cake because it makes

it so much moist than your ordinary cake.

So, we are gonna melt the butter down as we are here,

and we are going to put our chocolate, our sugar in

and our water. We're gonna mix it all. Keep stirring it for 3 or 4 minutes,

on medium to low heat. And then we'll show you what to do next.

okay guys, as you can see our mixture here is just about dissolved.

The butter is just about to completely melt, and see here,

it is like nectar from the gods, it is absolutely gorgeous.

So I've put it to one side, and let it cool for 10 minutes.

Okay guys, so we've let our chocolate mixture cool in the bowl.

This was the dark chocolate, butter, the water,

and the sugar that we dissolved down.

Melted the butter in the pan. We've let it cool for about 10 minutes,

and so we are going to put our eggs in now.

So I'll just grab a whisk, and we just want to put two beaten eggs,

straight in there, like that. Just give it a good mix.

We just wanna sift in our plain flour, which in 1 and a half cups.

Sift that in, just like that.

And we also want a quarter of a cup of cocoa.

Again, just sift that in.

Okay, just straight out the top.

Just like that. Any large bits, just get a spoon and work them through.

Just like that. Now we are going to fold this in,

until it forms a nice cake mixture.

okay, so that's about the consistency we want,

okay, just a nice, thick, gooey, thick cake mixture.

Okay, just like that.

Doesn't that look absolutely gorgeous.

Now, what I want you to go and do, is preheat the oven.

You are going to have a preheated oven of about 190 degrees.

Which is not very high for a cake, but it's going to be cooking

for a long time. We are going to cook this for about a hour

to an hour and a half, so it's going to be a long time cooking in the oven.

Now, go and get a cake tin. I'll just show you mine.

I've got one of these springform cake tins, they are fantastic,

I love them, but you still got to grease it. If you were going to

use an ordinary cake tin, just get some baking paper and line it

and butter it as well.

Okay, you just want to grab your cake mixture

and pour it straight in like that.

Then you just wanna make sure it's all nice and even,

all the way to the edges, you don't want a big bit in the middle,

push it all the way to the side.

Make it as flat as you can, because we are going to ice this later

with some beautiful chocolate icing.

It is actually called a chocolate ganache,

which is what we are going to do later on.

Alright, that goes into an oven. Preheated oven, 190 degrees,

and that is going to be beautiful.

Okay guys, what I've done here,

I've just put our cream and our chocolate in, okay,

and we are going to make our chocolate ganache.

Now, a chocolate ganache is an icing

we are gonna use for the topping on our cake.

So we are going to melt this all down, with the chocolate and the cream,

we are gonna transfer that to another bowl, to cool, and we are

gonna put it in the fridge for about 30 minutes.

Okay, until it becomes nice and thick, until that chocolate thickens up again,

and then we are going to be ready to ice our cake.

Okay guys, so we've got our cake out,

let it cool and our icing is cool as well, our chocolate ganache,

and we are just gonna pour it straight over the cake,

and I want it to run off the cake.

So don't worry about the mess that's gonna cause

and all that sort of stuff, we can clean it up later.

But I just want this beautiful, smooth chocolate ganache,

just, over the top there like that, okay.

And let it run down, because it give it a beautiful, homemade look.

I want to show you a little trick. Now, we're going to decorate

this with some chocolate flakes.

So, I've got some really good Belgium milk chocolate, just get an ordinary

vegetable peeler and just on the side,

I want you to just grate the chocolate.

So just keep doing this because we are going to put

this all around the edge of our cake and make it look

even more delicious than it already is.

Flakes we've just done, and just sprinkle them

around the side, okay, just like that.

This is looking beautiful.

And there you go guys, Nicko's mud cake.

It is absolutely dead sexy,

you can see there it's all nice and moist in the middle,

it's absolutely fantastic,

our icing, our shaved chocolate on the side,

hmm, I wish you guys were here to eat it.

Okay guys, all the ingredients are on the side of the page,

or on the website, please check them out,

give this a go, it is fantastic,

You take care, and we'll see you next time.

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