Chocolate Mud Cake with Chocolate Frosting

Only this mud cake itself is so good! I've come up with the perfect recipe for a perfectly fudgy mud cake. In this recipe, I top the cake with milk chocolate frosting. The smooth frosting together with the rich chocolate flavor from the cake makes it IRRESISTIBLY good! You just have to give it a try.

In Sweden we call this cake "kladdkaka" (sticky cake). It's basically a fudgy chocolate cake with a rich chocolate flavor and a gooey inside in the middle.

Bake the cake in a round 8 inch cake pan.

Ingredients:

150 g butter

120 g granulated sugar

160 g light brown sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla

3 eggs

165 g all-purpose flour

40 g unsweetened cocoa powder

A pinch of salt

Milk chocolate frosting:

NOTE! The milk chocolate frosting needs to cool completely in the refrigerator (about 4 hours) before you can whisk it up. Make the frosting before the cake if you want to serve it the same day.

200 g milk chocolate

200 ml heavy whipping cream

Topping (optional):

Chopped almonds

Chocolate chips or chopped chocolate of your choice

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 °F. Prepare the cake pan and line it with parchment paper, put aside.

2. Melt the butter in a saucepan and leave to cool a bit.

3. Mix all the other ingredients together in a bowl and add the melted butter. IMPORTANT not to whisk the batter, but mix everything gently until combined.

4. Pour the batter into the pan and bake for about 28-30 minutes (time varies depending on the oven). Mine was baked for 28 minutes.

5. The mud cake should be a bit wobbly in the middle when you remove it out of the oven if you want it really sticky and gooey (it will settle more after cooling).

6. Allow to cool in the fridge for a couple of hours for a perfectly fudgy and chewy texture.

7. Before adding the frosting, allow the cake to cool completely, otherwise the frosting will melt.

8. Frosting: Break the chocolate into pieces into a medium saucepan, add the cream and let it gently melt together over low heat. Stir constantly.

9. As soon as the chocolate and cream have melted together, pour the batter into a glass or metal bowl and place it to cool completely in the fridge for at least 4 hours.

10. Whisk the frosting and spread or pipe it onto the cake. Top with other optional toppings and serve!