Chocolate Mud Cake is a dense chocolate-y cake topped with Mascarpone Coffee Topping. Homemade mascarpone is added to whipped cream to make a delicious topping. Every bite is a decadent delight.
It’s been over a month to my birthday and I am sharing the cake now! And a blog post after many weeks… Well, I have been trying to get back to full-time blogging and be regular like the good old days but the pace is just not picking up. To add another excuse to my laziness is the fact that I am not able to get time to dedicatedly pursue all the steps involved in the final post here on the blog. From creating a dish, to shooting it, to editing the images to writing to you guys about my experiences of the dish, and then socially promoting it.
Hats off to all those mothers who with 2 or more kids run a successful blog. I am just not able to be so regular. I am hoping that by next spring, the younger one will start primary school and THEN I will get a little more time to create and share more with you. Till then, I will do my best and you guys don’t forget me! Pretty please!!
Last year I created many many cakes full of cream, layers, and flavors for family and friends. This year I wanted to try different techniques, reduce the number of layers, and move away from the use of soy-based whipped cream.
The first such creation was this gorgeous Chocolate Mud Cake with Mascarpone Coffee Topping. I tried a new recipe from here. And I must say the recipe was simply wow!! The real credit would not go to the cake as per me but to the chocolate soaking syrup which Lorraine suggested. In the original recipe, she used the syrup as frosting but since I already had planned for mascarpone coffee topping, I decided to follow exact instructions and pour the syrup over the cake when it was still syrupy.
Basic soaking syrup is good but this chocolate syrup in chocolate cake took the cake to another level. This syrup is what lends the mud and chocolatey flavor to each bite.
The cake was a super hit and I loved it. Even my kids ate with great relish. A must-try recipe for the rich, gooey chocolate love.
Chocolate Mud Cake
Ingredients
for the cake
- 1½ cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 6 tbsp cocoa powder unsweetend, sifted
- 1½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1½ cup water
- ½ cup olive oil
- 3 tbsp white vinegar
- 4 tsp vanilla extract
- 100 gram dark chocolate finely chopped
for the chocolate syrup
- ⅓ cup water
- 30 gram icing sugar
- 1 tsp cocoa powder unsweetened
- 100 gram dark chocolate finely chopped
for coffee mascarpone whipped cream
- 200 gram mascarpone cheese
- 100 gram whipped cream
- 1 tbsp instant coffee powder heaped
for the chocolate barks
- 100 grams dark chocolate coarsely chopped
Instructions
for the cake
- Prepare a 9 inch spring-form pan and preheat oven to 180 °C
- Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix together. In a separate bowl or jug, mix water, oil, vinegar and vanilla. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Stir in chopped chocolate. Pour the ready batter in prepared pan. Bake for 35-40 minutes.
- Check the cake for doneness by inserting a skewer or toothpick inside and it comes out clean. Once the cake is done, allow it to cool inside the pan only.
for the chocolate syrup
- Quickly work on preparing the chocolate soaking syrup. Heat the water, icing sugar and cocoa powder until boiling and slightly thick for 2-3 minutes. When thick add chopped chocolate, and whisk rigorously to remove lumps and melt the chocolate.
- Poke tiny holes in the cake using a toothpick or skewer. Pour the warm syrup in still warm cake allowing it to be absorbed in whole cake. Let the cake cool completely in the pan before demolding it.
for the chocolate barks
- Melt 100 grams of dark chocolate for barks. Spread a layer of melted chocolate on a sheet of parchment paper. The thickness should be such that it's easy to remove when chocolate has set. If it's too thin then it will break. Once the chocolate is set, using a knife gently make a lines in chocolate and brake it on those lines or you can just roughly break them randomly.
for coffee mascarpone whipped cream
- Whip mascarpone cheese in a separate bowl, set aside. In another bowl, take whipping cream and add coffee powder and whip them together. Gently fold in coffee whipped cream into mascarpone. Spread on top of the cake and decorate with chocolate barks.
Notes
- The original recipe calls for baking for 25-30 minutes but my batter was very runny, so I had to bake it for 35-40 minutes. You can adjust the timing as per your batter and oven.
- You can prepare the chocolate soaking syrup while the cake is baking but since mine took longer and the syrup quickly sets then has to be used as a spread on ready cake. I wanted to specifically use it to soak as I was planning to top the cake with coffee-flavored mascarpone cheese and whipped cream. So I prepared it immediately after the cake was baked and cooled slightly. I poured it on top of the cake while still warm and allowed the cake to cool completely.
- My hubby set the chocolate and he did it a bit too thick, I recommend spreading it thinner.
