It was my best friend’s birthday and I made a chocolate mud cake with chocolate ganache. I was very excited to make this cake for her birthday as she is my BFF. It was a great hit at her birthday party. I hope you will try this recipe as it’s very easy to make and delicious too!

1.  First melt 1 ¼ cup of butter, 8 oz of chocolate, 2 cups sugar and ¾ cup hot water mixed with 1 tsp cocoa. Place these ingredients in a heat proof bowl and place this bowl over a pan of boiling water (but the bowl should not touch the water!). When the chocolate has melted, turn off the heat and take  the bowl off the pan.
2. Add ½ cup milk to the above and beat for a couple of seconds.
3. Add 4 eggs and 30 ml vegetable oil and beat again.
4. Sift 2 cups flour, 2 tsp baking powder, a pinch of salt, ½ tsp baking soda and ½ cup cocoa.
5. Beat with a mixer until combined. Transfer the mixture to a lined and greased cake tin.
6. Set the oven to 160°C and bake the cake for an hour. Ask an adult for help.
7. Test the cake by inserting a wooden skewer in the middle. If it comes out clean the cake is dine. If  the skewer is wet, bake for 5 more minutes or until it’s cooked through properly.

For the ganache:

1. Melt 200g dark chocolate, 120g butter, 125 ml double cream and 1 Tbsp sugar together.
2. Let it cool then pour it over on the cake and let it drip down the side.
3.  The ganache I made was thick, so I just spread it over the cake. You can add some milk to make it thinner if you need to.