Chocolate Fudge Cake - A Very Chocolaty Cake For Any Occasion

Oozing with creamy chocolate melts, this fudge cake will set your mouth watering at first sight!

You can make the fudge cream on the previous day and store it in the fridge to make the process easier and quicker.  Just heat up the fudge in the microwave for 10 seconds to bring it to a chocolaty melt and pour over the cake.  

Gather all the necessary ingredients and set to make this beauty!

What you'll need:

Ingredients  Amounts

Self R.flour	300 g
Margarine	300 g
Caster sugar	300 g
Eggs	5
Baking p.	1 tsp
Cocoa p.	4 tbsp
Salt	2 pinches
Lemon	1 tsp
Double cream	2 tbsp
Milk	1 tbsp

Let’s make it: Set the oven to 180 C 

• Beat butter and sugar together until creamy, using an electric hand mixer.  This will take approximately 3 mins. Make sure you beat clockwise

• Add eggs, one at a time. Make sure you beat well after each addition

• Add vanilla essence,  lemon juice, and salt and beat for two rounds

• Mix baking powder,  flour, and cocoa powder and sieve onto the cake batter, holding the sieve well above it, allowing the air to escape

• Do not use the electric mixer at this point.  Fold the flour gently with a wooden spoon until everything turns into a creamy batter

• Add double cream and milk.  Mix them all together

• Line up a baking tray with parchment paper and spoon the batter into the baking tray and flatten with a spatula

• Lift up the tray and drop it twice onto your kitchen top gently, allowing the batter to spread and settle evenly on the tray

• Pop it into the oven for 20-30 mins depending on your oven

• Insert a skewer into the middle of the cake and if it comes clean,  your cake is ready

• Take it out from the oven and let it rest for 10 mins

• Slowly remove it from the tray and place it on a cooling rack.  Let the cake cool down completely

• Dip a long bread knife in hot water, wipe clean and slice the cake into two slices.  Cut the cake into four and then slice if you find it difficult to slice the full cake

• Your cake must cool off completely to lay fudge on top.  This will take up to 2 hrs

Let’s gather the following ingredients;

Ingredient   Amounts 

Icing sugar	1/2 cup
Double cream	1/4 cup
Butter	50 g
Choc buttons	110 g
Cocoa powder	3 tbsp

 

• In a small glass bowl place, chocolate drops, butter, and double cream.
• Place a wider pan on the stove and fill it with hot water.
• Dip the small glass bowl into the wide pan.
• Stir slowly until the chocolates melt along with the butter and cream.
• If the chocolates are hard, heat up the pan with water under a very light flame.
• Add sieved icing sugar and cocoa powder.
• Take out from the pan and stir until you are left with a creamy chocolaty melt.
• Leave to cool.
• With the help of a flat knife or spatula pat the creamy chocolate melt onto the bottom layer of the cake.  Place the top layer, remove the upper crust with a help of a long knife and press down softly so that both layers stick together properly.
• Pour chocolate cream on the top layer.  Let it slide from the top and drip down.
• Sprinkle some decorative sprinkles or you can simply shave a bar of white chocolate to have nice white curly shaves on top.
• Enjoy!