The perfect cosy dessert for cool winter days thats easy to make.
The chocolate cake of your dreams…
I know this is a great dessert for sweater weather.
The hot chocolate fudge sauce for this cake
Let me paint the picture for you.
A warm slice of soft chocolate cake, moist in a way that cakes can only be when warm.
A scoop of melty vanilla ice cream on top.
Then you douse douse, my friends!
with hot chocolate fudge sauce.
Did I mention how easy this Hot Chocolate Fudge Cake is to me?
The hot chocolate fudge sauce for this cake
The batter is made in a single bowl with a wooden spoon.
And that fudge sauce is 2 ingredients just cream and chocolate.
Dry ingredients for the warm chocolate cake
Flour Just plain / all-purpose flour.
This fudgy chocolate cake is served hot
Self raising flour will also work but the cake crumb is not as soft.
(Skip the baking soda and baking powder if you use self-raising flour).
Baking soda is also ~3x stronger than baking powder.
See recipe notes for quantities.
Cocoa powder Just plain cocoa powder, unsweetened.
Else ordinary white sugar / granulated sugar works ok too.
Salt Just a pinch brings out the flavours in this cake, especially the chocolate.
Fairly standard baking practice for me these days, adding a touch of salt for this purpose!
Using both gives us the best of both worlds!
It is also best to be at room temperature seethis postfor a quick way to do this.
Vanilla For flavour, which compliments the chocolate.
Boiling water Using hot rather than cold water makes the cocoa flavour bloom so the cake tastes more chocolatey.
Youll smell the chocolate the moment the hot water mixes into the batter!
No coffee?Some chocolate cakes include a touch of coffee which brings out the chocolate flavour.
The ratio of chocolate to cream is 1:1 for ganache.
Dark chocolate I use standard baking dark chocolate melts or chips (US: semi-sweet chocolate chips).
you’re free to also use chopped 50 70% dark chocolate (Lindt is my favourite).
Chocolate meltsare just a bang out of chocolate chips that is available here in Australia.
It comes in a disc shape and is designed to melt easily and smoothly.
This is because they are softer than dark chocolate.Fellow baking nerds can read more about this in myChocolate Ganacherecipe!
Cream Either heavy / thickened cream or pure cream will work here.
Reduced fat doesnt always mix properly into the chocolate and also the sauce will be too thin.
How to make Hot Chocolate Fudge Cake
Get the cake in the oven first.
Making the hot fudge cake
Just mixed up in one bowl with a whisk.
No stand-mixer or electric beater required.
This is a very forgiving cake.
Mix Dry Whisk the Dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Add Wet Add the Wet ingredients, except the boiling water, into the same bowl.
Then whisk the boiling water in.
Pourthe batter into a lined 20cm/8 pan.
Remember, were making a hot fudge cake here, so its fine if the centre is slightly damp!
Coolin the pan for 10 minutes.
Hot cake is very delicate!
Then pour it over the chocolate in a bowl.
Full coverage!Shake the bowl / poke as needed to ensure all the chocolate is submerged.
5minutes Cover with a plate and leave for 5 minutes so the cream melts the chocolate.
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Mixuntil the cream and chocolate combine into a glossy chocolate sauce.
Coolfor 20 minutes to let the sauce thicken slightly.
Just leave it in the bowl.
Serving Give it a mix to make it smooth again.
Then pour into serving jugs to let everyone help themselves.
(Or, if youre concerned about portion control, you could serve it!).
It will keep for at least a week just bear in mind the shelf life of the cream.
Put on a plate or a shallow bowl (for easy chocolate-sauce-melted-ice-cream scooping).
Top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream then douse with warm chocolate fudge sauce.
Dive in andswoon!!
Any baked good heated up wipes out any trace of staleness!
Keep it in the fridge it will firm up to a peanut butter like consistency.
Scoop out what you need, then just microwave to re-melt.
And PS, in case youre concerned, theres plenty of hot fudge sauce for serving.
2 whole cups, thats 500 ml.
Imagine running out of chocolate sauce!
Probably rebelling because he was deprived of chocolate cake.
No chocolate for dogs!
