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I have a lifelong love-affair with all things South of USA. For me chocolate cake is all about the Mississippi Mud Cake – complete with bourbon and marshmallows! A far cry from the mud cakes from Woolies or Michel’s Patisserie!
This recipe is a traditional one from a southern friend complete with a soaking of bourbon but minus the marshmallows.
Rum can be used instead if you don’t have bourbon though it just wouldn’t have the same southern twang.
Mississippi Mud Cake
Ingredients
125g dark chocolate, broken into small pieces
100g butter – room temperature and cut into pieces
3/4 C caster sugar
2/3 C hot water
1/4 C bourbon
3/4 C plain flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
2 eggs
100g butter – room temperature and cut into pieces
1/2 C packed brown sugar
1/4 C caster sugar
2/3 C hot water
1/4 C bourbon
3/4 C plain flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
2 eggs Method
Preheat oven to 160°C and grease a 20cm round cake pan. Line the bottom with baking paper.
In a large metal bowl over a double boiler, melt the butter and chocolate.
Add the sugar, hot water and bourbon and mix until smooth. Take the bowl off the heat and set aside to cool slightly.
Cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Take it out of the tin and cool on a wire rack. Trim off the dome tops of the cake to get a flat surface.
The icing recipe is for one cake. So if you’re doing 2 layers like I did, just double the icing measurements. This gave me enough to sandwich the 2 cakes and ice the top and sides. I also had to add more icing sugar for a really thick frosting (and a splash of bourbon because I’m wicked). 120g dark chocolate
60g butter
2 TBL water (you can substitute 1 TBL of water for bourbon if you wish)
1 C icing sugar sifted (more might be needed if you want a stiffer frosting)
Melt butter, chocolate and water (and bourbon if using) in a pan and slowly stir in sifted icing sugar. Beat until smooth and ice over cold cake (electric beaters are quicker than a hand whisk).
This was a monster of a cake. Luckily I’m not on a diet! And I couldn’t stop thinking of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. You know the scene – Bruce Bogtrotter (“Brucey”) and Mrs Trunchbull’s giant chocolate cake that he consumed in its sickening entirety.
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Yum! Looks and sounds delicious. You should enter it into Not Quite Nigella’s choc cake comp :)
hello there. visiting your blog from sweden! nice one!hope everything is well with you.maxi of http://www.healthnbeyond.comi surely love chocolate cakes…will surely try this one. makes me hungry already!
Thanks for your entry Karen, it looks so deliciously rich!BTW I tagged you-have a look at the site – it’s totally up to you if you want to participate :)
Hi Christy: Thanks I entered to give it a whirl though I don’t think this beast is pretty enough to win :)Maxi: Thanks for dropping in :)Lorraine: No probs Lorraine! Oh and thanks for the tag!
Looks good! Frosting and decorating cakes are not my forte either!~ingrid
that cake looks unbelievably moist. yum-nothing can beat a chocolate cake!
Hi Ingrid: Good to see I’m not alone here! But I guess it doesn’t really matter as long as it tastes good!Hi Megan: It was very lusciously moist and dense – the way it should be! And yep nothing beats a chocolate cake…that’s my motto :)
I love that food porn shot too! I enjoyed your post–I love Mississippi Mud Cake, and I’ve not seen one that included bourbon–YUM!
Hi Linda – Thanks a lot Linda! I think chocolate makes the best food porn photos!
This looks like the chocolate cake I will like to indulge in when I don’t mind a sinful slice!
Looks lovely! Note to wife. My birthday is soon!
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