Aren’t they pretty?
Last month, when I went to Melbourne for the Olympus lunch, I was given lots of beautiful gifts from the ladies who attended the lunch. One of them was a beautiful box from a girl named Cara. I wasn’t expecting gifts, and especially not that many, so I was struggling to fit them in my bags. I spent a bit of time rearranging and figuring it all out.
The box from Cara was moved and turned upside down, and eventually I decided to take it as carry-on in the plane because I couldn’t fit it anywhere else. In the taxi to the airport, I said to my friend Alex, “I wonder what is in this? I hope it’s not cake because I turned it upside down”. I’m not the most graceful person, my mum will be quick to tell you that. And sure enough, it was cake. I could tell it was once beautiful, but my ungraceful ways had made it anything but. I was mortified. Sorry Cara.
But that cake was the best cake I ever met. I know, I’ve said it before about other cakes, but this one. OMG. Get in my mouth.
Cara has never, ever shared the recipe before… but I have it and I’m sharing it. She hasn’t yet revealed her icing recipe, but I’m hoping one day we can snag that off her.
Cara’s never ever fail Thermomix chocolate mudcake
Ingredients
250g unsalted butter
200g dark chocolate {white chocolate works too}
330g water
440g caster sugar
3/4 cup self-raising flour
3/4 cup plain flour
3 eggs
Method
♥ Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
♥ Place butter, chocolate, water and sugar into the Thermomix jug. Mix on speed 5 for 15 seconds. Cook on 90c, speed 2 for 4 minutes.
♥ Add flours. Mix on speed 5 for 3 seconds. Add in eggs and mix on speed 5 for 7 seconds.
♥ Place in oven and cook for 22 minutes {cupcakes} and longer for cake {just test with a skewer and if it comes out clean, you’re done}.
Non-Thermomixers: Just place the butter, chocolate, water and sugar into a saucepan and stir over medium heat until the butter and chocolate has melted. Add the flours, and eggs and mix until combined. Cook as per instructions.
They look AMAZING! That is some talent right there. x
These look devine, definitely talented!!!. Too bad there is no recipe for “no-fail amazing cupcake decorations”!!!
Oh, yummo! Thank you for sharing Cara! Can we pretty, pretty,pretty pretty please, with a big red cherry on top have the icing recipe too *insert puppy dog eyes* hehehehe. Those cupcakes look so divine, very pretty!
SHUT UP! They are gorgeous.
I love a good chocolate cake.
I recently have been obsessed with the Thermomix “Magic Bean Cake”
I like to think it is healthy because it has beans in it.
However I think slathering it with ganache makes puts it in the unhealthy category!
Thank you for sharing Cara!
I made a mudcake yesterday following this recipe in my Thermomix. So so yummy! Want to try White Chocolate next! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my my cupcake crush!!
I made this cake today in my TM5 and it was perfect. I’ve found a great recipe, thank you so much x
Those cupcakes are simply stunning! Wow and PS I can be like that too 🙂 X
Oh wow!! They look absolutely stunning!! There really is nothing better than a deliciously moist mud cake… and this one looks like the biggest winner. Thanks so much for linking up with our Fabulous Foodie Fridays party! xx
I made a white chocolate version of this – tragedy! The mixture was super runny…. I cooked small round cakes ( maybe 15 cm diameter) for an hour and they collapsed and taste really strongly of egg….. Very disappointed
Mine was the same, I ended up putting an extra cup of each flour in. 1 and a half cups of flour (as listed) just didn’t seem enough for such big volumes of chocolate, water and butter… I’m keen to find out if it was a typo or if I was mis-reading it….
I’ll have to make it again to figure that out. I know it was very liquidy but resulted in a moist cake.
I’m away for the next week but I’ll make when I return.
Have just made this too and can’t attest to how it turns out but super easy to make! Definitely suggest putting up post to not use removable bottom cake tins – bit messy :-0
Thank you!
I am making this for my daughters birthday cake… The cake mix seems very very wet. Is this normal. It is liquid! Help!!!
Yes mine is the same -VERY runny! Is this right?
Once cooked?
I’ll have to try the cake again this weekend and see what you mean? Mine was perfect. x
Same here. I did reduce the sugar amount. Doesn’t taste too sweet but the texture is not nice at all.
Mine was very very liquid also. Cooked up great but way to sweet once iced.
Thank you for this recipe. I made it for my son’s birthday cake. I received loads of compliments and there were no left overs.
Eeeeeekkkk – mine is super runny too!!!! – what should I do?
Is it mandatory to use both types of flour? I only had SR Flour so I used that instead.
And how long would U bake for (in an 8×8 square pan). I cooked it for 45mins on 180c but it didn’t turn out ‘right’. I’m not sure if its meant to be like a fudge. Toothpick test came out clean though.
Perhaps U can post a pic of a successful one? many thanks!
Made this for my husbands birthday today! AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Thank you xxxxxxxxx
The mix is very wet. I ended up putting in an extra 1/4 of the flours to the batter (1 cup of each in total). Turned out great, it is the most moist cake I have ever tried. Yum!
I am going to try this out tonight for a Birthday at work tomorrow so i shall let everyone know how mine goes 🙂
I have made this cake 3 times now. The first I followed the directions and the temp of the oven was too hot for a single large cake, it cracked, rose unevenly, the top started to burn and the center of the cake didn’t cook. The second I added the extra 1/4 cup of each flour as suggested below and cooked at 150c for 100 mins, cake was better but still not perfect. Third cake I added the extra flours and cooked at 120c for 120 mins and it was perfect, rose evenly and was cooked all the way through. Thought I’d share in case anyone else wants to cook it at a single large cake 🙂 All 3 cakes still tasted great but the third looked the part too 🙂
Tastes like a sweet chocolate omelette. Terrible recipe, please don’t use unless heeding what others below said, which I didn’t read until it was in the oven. It would probably work with a lot more flour as recommended below. It has all the right ingredients, but in the wrong ratios. I made for my sons birthday, but lucky it was a tester. So disappointed ☹️