Mississippi mud cake

Name: Mississippi mud cake
Yield: Serves 8–10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 400 g/14 oz/2 cups caster (superfine) sugar; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 300 ml/½ pint/1¼ cups strong, brewed coffee; 50 ml/2 fl oz/¼ cup bourbon; 150 g/5 oz plain (semisweet) chocolate, broken into pieces; 300 ml/½ pint/1¼ cups strong, brewed coffee; 225 g/8 oz/1 cup butter, plus extra for greasing; unsweetened cocoa powder, for dusting; 2 eggs; 5 ml/1 tsp baking powder; 7.5 ml/1½ tsp vanilla extract

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

This rich chocolate cake is a variation of Mississippi mud pie, a sticky dessert baked in a pie shell. The cake tastes good served, as you would serve the pie, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or some whipped cream – or even both. This cake will keep refrigerated for two days.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz/1 cup butter, plus extra for greasing
unsweetened cocoa powder

Americas
United States
Mississippi
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the oven to 140°C/275°F/Gas 1. Grease a 25cm/10in round deep cake tin (pan), then dust it lightly with the cocoa powder.
Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl with the coffee, bourbon and butter. Set the bowl over a pan of gently simmering wate