Chocolate Mud Cake with simple icing

 

Chocolate? Who doesn't love it? I will share with you a simple chocolate that are so easy to put together and the best part it comes with a simple chocolate icing. The moist chocolate cake top with the simple sweet chocolate icing it's just irresistible.

Ingredients:

(A) Chocolate cake

1 1/2 cup     Self raising flour
1/3    cup     Cocoa powder, sifted
1       cup     Sugar
1       cup     Milk
2                  Eggs
125   grams Butter, room temperature
1       tsp      Kahlua / Instant coffee powder (optional)
1/2    tsp      Vanilla extract

(B) Chocolate Icing

1 1/3 cup     Icing sugar
1/4    cup     Cocoa powder
4       tbsp    Water

How to do it?

Pre-heat oven to 180ºC. Grease and lined an 8" round baking tin.

Sift together self-raising flour and cocoa powder. Set aside.

In a mixing bowl, beat the butter for 2 minutes until creamy. Add in sugar and continue to beat for 5 - 8 minutes until it is light and fluffy.

Add in egg, one at a time into the butter mixture. Mix in Kahlua / instant coffee powder and vanilla extract.

Fold in flour and milk alternately starting and ending with cocoa flour mixture in three addition. Mix well to combined.

Transfer to the baking tin and bake in the pre-heated oven for 40 - 45 minutes or until it is cooked all the way through. Cool in a wire rack.

Once cool, prepare the icing by mixing together the icing sugar, cocoa powder and water until it becomes a thick and spreadable consistency. Pour over the cake and spread evenly on the cake.