Chocolate Mud cakes are dense, fudgey, moist chocolate-y cakes famous for their resemblance to…. Mud (pies)!! Now, that we’ve cleared that mystery, I should admit I’d never eaten any mud cakes before we moved to Australia. For one, I wasn’t very sure of the contents (Ah yes, laugh all you want!) and, being vegan (which I was back then too) did not mean I was about to start eating everything that wasn’t derived from an animal either! I can now honestly admit that I’ve moved on from my initial trepidation to taste and bake these many, many times over. They make perfect birthday cakes as the flavour is always better the next day.Β I’m very curious to know if you have had any funny experiences with unfamiliar food names in the comments below π
We need,
- Fine Wholemeal Flour – 1.5 cups (Pass through a sieve twice/ thrice for fine flour)
- Soda Bicarbonate – 1 teaspoon
- Raw Sugar – 1 cup
- Baking Cocoa Powder – 3.5 tablespoons
- Vanilla Essence – 2 teaspoons
- Water – 1 cup
- Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) – 1 tablespoon
- Light Vegetable Oil (I used sunflower) – 5 tablespoons
Directions,
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
- Spray an 8″ cake pan and set aside.
- Sift the dry ingredients together – flour, sugar and cocoa.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together water, ACV, vanilla and oil.
- Add the bicarbonate of soda to the wet ingredients and mix well.
- Fold in the flour mix and whisk until no lumps remain. The batter is quite thin and easy to pour.
- Pour intoΒ the prepared cake pan.
- Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 40 minutes or, until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
- Rest the cake in the cake pan for atleast 15 minutes before inverting on a cake rack.Β Cool well before icing.
ohh….your making me hungry…it looks soscrumptious
Thank you. π
I am soo craving this right now…
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Fantastic!
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Awesome… Looks yummy
Thank you π
Wow can feel the moist in that cake. Delicious!!
Thank you Sumith π I was trying to get a close up shot of the slice without blurring the picture! πΈ
I’m drooling π It looks so good!
Thanks heaps π Hopefully you’ll try it out one of these days.
ohh yummy..I agree the cake always tastes better the next day. Though I love to scrape off the cake crumbs that stick to pan once the cake is removed. π
Thank you π Eating the crumbs is taste testing and a very important step π
Looks so moist and chocolatey good.
Thanks π The chocolate factor is what keeps me coming back!
Nice…..
Thank you π
Loved the Vegan Mud Cake images and I am definitely gonna try this one.
Is there anyway I can reduce the calorie intake and still get the same taste? π
Thanks π Replacing the oil with applesauce and using stevia/ Xylitol for the raw sugar should bring down the calorie count. Hope you can try it out π