A Muddy Chocolate Cake suitable for using to sculpt a cake like a bus.
Ingredients
600g (20 oz) dark cooking chocolate, chopped
750g (1½ lb) butter, chopped
15 eggs
3 cups caster (superfine) sugar
3 tspn vanilla extract
3 cups self-raising flour
2½ tspn baking powder
1 cup cocoa powder
1½ cups almond meal
Instructions
Line a 40cm x 30cm cake tin with baking paper.
Preheat oven to 140C (280F).
Stir the chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat until melted and smooth. Set aside.
Beat the eggs, sugar and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer until cream and thick. Fold in the chocolate mixture. Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa over the top and gently fold through with the almond meal.
Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin and bake for 2 hrs 10 mins or until the cake is cooked when tested with a skewer.
Allow the cake to cool in the tin.
Remove from tin then wrap in cling film and store in the freezer until ready to use.
Recipe by Hotly Spiced at http://hotlyspiced.com/how-to-make-a-bus-cake-with-a-stiletto-shoe/