Ever notice when you deprive yourself of something, how prominently it can then show up in your life? I decided to forego chocolate for a couple of weeks and in that time I have posted this Chocolate Nut Crunch Recipe and now I am posting about White Chocolate Mud Cake! My rationale is if I am cooking a cake or sweet treat and it isn’t just a bar of chocolate I am consuming, then it doesn’t really count. Chocolate detox = fail!!!!!!
This White Chocolate Mud Cake Recipe is divine and is based on the one I found at Exclusively Food. I didn’t use the right shape tin, so it is slightly thinner than what it should be, but this actually worked quite well I think. It is a very dense and rich cake, so you don’t need that much of it to enjoy it.
Now I know this statement will be controversial but White Chocolate is simply the BEST!
White Chocolate Mud Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
- 300g white chocolate (I used Cadbury Dream white chocolate)
- 200g butter
- 1 cup milk
- 2/3 cup self-raising flour
- 1 cup plain flour
- 3/4 cup caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
Method:
- Preheat oven to a low temp (approx 150 degrees Celsius).
- The recipe said to use a 20cm square cake pan, but I actually used a 25cm springform tin. Line your tin with baking paper.
- Into a large saucepan place cut up butter, chocolate broken into pieces and milk and sugar.
- On a low heat, melt these ingredients together stirring constantly.
- Once it looks melted, remove the saucepan from the heat and let it cool to room temperature (this takes about 15 – 20 minutes).
- Once at room temperature, slowly add combined eggs and vanilla, stirring as you go.
- In a large bowl mix flours together.
- Pour about a third of the white chocolate liquid into the flour and mix well.
- Keep repeating this step until all the white choc has been mixed in.
- The mixture will be quite runny, pour into your tin and place in oven.
- Bake for 60 – 75 minutes (depending on tin). To test the cake, use a skewer in the middle – if it comes out clean then it is done. If not bake for another 5 minutes.
- Let the cake sit in the tine to cool for about 15 – 20 minutes. Cover it with a clean tea towel.
- This is one of those cakes that is even better at about day 2!
- 300g white chocolate (I used Cadbury Dream white chocolate)
- 200g butter
- 1 cup milk
- ⅔ cup self-raising flour
- 1 cup plain flour
- ¾ cup caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- Preheat oven to a low temp (approx 150 degrees Celsius).
- The recipe said to use a 20cm square cake pan, but I actually used a 25cm springform tin. Line your tin with baking paper.
- Into a large saucepan place cut up butter, chocolate broken into pieces and milk and sugar.
- On a low heat, melt these ingredients together stirring constantly.
- Once it looks melted, remove the saucepan from the heat and let it cool to room temperature (this takes about 15 - 20 minutes).
- Once at room temperature, slowly add combined eggs and vanilla, stirring as you go.
- In a large bowl mix flours together.
- Pour about a third of the white chocolate liquid into the flour and mix well.
- Keep repeating this step until all the white choc has been mixed in.
- The mixture will be quite runny, pour into your tin and place in oven.
- Bake for 60 - 75 minutes (depending on tin). To test the cake, use a skewer in the middle - if it comes out clean then it is done. If not bake for another 5 minutes.
- Let the cake sit in the tine to cool for about 15 - 20 minutes. Cover it with a clean tea towel.
- This is one of those cakes that is even better at about day 2!
Our Family Menu Plan For This Week.
Baking: Rolled Oat Slice
Monday: Pumpkin Soup
Tuesday: Salad Rolls (Going to be a massive day for me, so I need the simplest thing possible for dinner – my kids think it is such a treat to have these for dinner.)
Wednesday: Beef Stir Fry
Thursday: Mexibake
Friday: Left Overs
Saturday: Tacos
Sunday: Roast Beef
If you are looking for further recipe inspiration, check out my complete list of Family Friendly Recipes. All of these recipes are in the database of the Planning With Kids Free Menu Planner. You can use the menu planner to plan a week of meals for your family and then print out the associated shopping list.