Ingredients

250 mls of hot water
60 mls of milk
250 gms butter
275 gms sugar
200 gms dark chocolate
2 tbsp whisky or tia maria (I omitted this as my kids don’t like alcoholic flavour)
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tspn vanilla essence

260 gms plain flour
25 gms cocoa powder
1/2 tsp bicarb of soda

For Ganache

100 gm marshmallows
125 mls milk
125 gms dark chocolate

METHOD

1. Put butter, sugar, choc, water and milk in saucepan over low heat until butter and chocolate is melted.
2. Pour mixture into a big mixing bowl to cook.
3. Beat eggs lightly and mix into cooled mixture with vanilla essence.
4. Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder together into mixture and beat lightly till well mixed.
5. Add whisky or tia maria or brandy.
6. Pour mixture into a lined 8 inch tin and bake in slow oven (150 deg cent) for about an hour and a half or until cooked (test with skewer)
7. Cool cake for about 10 mins before turning out of tin. Cool on rack.

GANACHE

1. Add all ganache ingredients into saucepan and mix till melted.
2. Cool a little bit and pour on cake.

I have not tried the above recipe. Will do so something this week and will surely put up the photo of my version of Choc Mud Cake.