Chocolate mud cake with white cocolate sauce
300g dark chocolate
250g butter
4 teaspoons instant coffee powder or granules
¾ cup water
¾ cup brown sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
1 cup flour
¼ cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
Break chocolate up roughly. Chop butter up roughly. Place chocolate and butter in a saucepan with coffee, water and brown sugar. Stir over medium heat until chocolate melts. Cool. Beat eggs and mix into chocolate mixture with vanilla. Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder together. Mix flour mixture into chocolate mixture and combine. Line the base of a 20cm cake tin with baking paper. Pour mixture into tin. Bake at 160 degrees C for 1¼ hours. Cool in tin for 10 minutes. Turn out and cool completely. Drizzle with white chocolate sauce.
White chocolate sauce
75g white chocolate
50g butter
1¼ cups milk 2 tablespoons custard powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Break chocolate into pieces. Place in a saucepan with butter and one cup of the measured milk. Heat until melted. Mix remaining milk with custard powder and vanilla essence. Pour into warm milk mixture. Stir until sauce thickens.
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