Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe

Makes 12 portions

Prep time – 1 hour 30 minutes

Equipment needed – 2 x 23cm round sandwich tins, 12 slice cake divider

INGREDIENTS

• 200g unsalted butter
• 80g caster sugar
• 115g light brown sugar
• 58ml water
• 50g cocoa
• 4 eggs
• 240g self-raising flour
• 9g baking powder
• 50ml whipping cream

Chocolate fudge

• 150g unsalted butter
• 330g icing sugar
• 45g cocoa
• 15ml full-fat milk
• 30g dark chocolate, grated

Method:

• Preheat oven to 165C.
• Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs and beat to emulsify.
• Make a paste with the water and cocoa.
• Add the cocoa paste to the creamed mixture then fold in flour and baking powder. Finally, fold in the cream.
• Pour into two greased and lined 23cm sandwich tins and bake for 30 mins or until cooked. Allow to cool for 5 minutes in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• To make chocolate fudge, beat butter until soft and then add the icing sugar, cocoa and milk to make the icing fluffy and spreadable.
• To build the cake, pipe half the chocolate fudge on one of the cakes, sandwich with second cake and spread the remaining chocolate fudge on the top. Sprinkle with grated chocolate.