Rich Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe

This Chocolate Fudge Cake is a rich, decadent, melt in your mouth chocolate cake with a sticky fudge feel  – it’s a chocolate lovers indulgent treat.

Add a dollop of cream or ice-cream to finish it off this dreamy delight.

Preparation time: 45 minutes

Cooking Time : 40 minutes

You will need 2 x 8″ sandwich tins greased and lined

Ingredients

250g Chocolate

10 oz Butter

10 oz Soft Brown Sugar

6 oz Plain Flour

4 Eggs

1 Tsp Vanilla Essence

Filling:

1 Tbsp Cocoa Powder

250g Butter

500g Icing Sugar

Plus

250g Chocolate for the topping

Method

Break up the chocolate and place in a heat proof bowl and add the butter to the bowl

Place this over a pan of boiling water so that the heat from the water melts the chocolate and butter together

When totally melted take off the heat and mix this into the sugar

Fold in the plain flour then whisk in the eggs and the vanilla essence

Place half of the mixture in each tin and place in the oven on 180 Degrees fro about 30-40 minutes until cooked all the way through

Take the cakes out of the oven and leave to cool

To make the chocolate icing- place the cocoa powder, butter and icing sugar into a bowl and whisk together until blended in

Melt the chocolate for the topping in a heat proof bowl over a pan of boiling water and melt until completely running- set this aside to cool a little

Take the two cooled cakes and level them off and cut both in half – sandwich them back together using the chocolate buttercream between each layer then coat the outside of the cake with the remaining chocolate buttercream

Poor over the slightly cooled chocolate

Serve with either cream or ice cream and enjoy.