White Chocolate Mud Cake With Frosting Recipes

Steps:

• Prehead oven to 160C (145C fan forced). Grease a 20cm square cake pan and line with paper.
• Place chocolate, butter, milk and sugar in a large saucepan over a low heat, stirring occasionally.
• Remove from heat when chocolate and butter have melted, and stir mixture well until completely smooth. Allow mix to cool at room temp for 15 minutes.
• Add vanilla and eggs to chocolate mixture and stir until well combined.
• Sift flours together into a large bowl.
• Add 1 cup of the chocolate mixture slowly and stir until a paste forms. Repeat until chocolate mixture has all been mixed in . The gradual method of combining wet and dry ingredients helps prevent lumps.
• Pour mixture into prepared pan. Bake for about 70 minutes. When the cake is ready a skewer inserted into the cake should come out clean.
• Cool on wire rack.
• To make the icing - beat the butter with an electric mixer until it becomes lighter and flufflier. Add the vanilla and then gradually add icing sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.
• Melt the chocolate in the microwave or over a double boiler for 2-3 minutes, set aside to cool for 5 minutes.
• Pour chocolate into icing mixture and beat until well combined.
• Pipe or spread icing on the cake.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour bottom and sides of rectangular pan, 13x9x2 inches, 2 round pans, 9x1 1/2 inches, or 3 round pans, 8x1 1/2 inches.
• Beat all ingredients except egg whites and Chocolate Buttercream Frosting in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
• Beat in egg whites on high speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into pan(s).
• Bake rectangle 40 to 45 minutes, 9-inch rounds 30 to 35 minutes, 8-inch rounds 23 to 28 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool rectangle in pan on wire rack. Cool rounds 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire rack. Cool completely.
• Frost rectangle or fill and frost layers with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.

Steps:

• Heat butter, chocolate, water and sugar in a saucepan stirring until melted and well combined.
• Sift flours together into a bowl and blend in chocolate mixture, eggs and vanilla Pour into a greased and base lined 20cm round cake tin.
• Bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes until cooked when tested.
• To make icing cream butter, blend in remaining ingredients.