Mud Cake with Spicy Fudge

A perfect cake should always be baked until a stick comes out of it clean. Except a mud cake. A perfect cake should always be spongy and airy. Except a mud cake. A perfect cake should always be tall and handsome. Except a mudcake. - Be a flat, thick, gooey and messy mudcake and everybody will love you the way you are! Never change, be yourself. For a charming and festive look, wear a spicy fudge. Sprinkle your favourite chocolate on top. Or even berries. On a hot day demand ice cream. On a cool day demand whipped cream. On a rainy day demand coffee and company. 

Mud Cake

150 g butter
4,5 dl / 1 3/4 cups sugar
1,5 dl / ½ cup dark cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract / 2 tsp vanilla sugar
3 eggs
2,5 dl / 1 cup plain flour

1. Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease and flour (I use dried and ground breadcrumbs) a 28 cm round spring form.
2. Melt the butter and mix in sugar, vanilla and cocoa powder.
3. Add eggs one at a time and mix well.
4. Add flour and mix until the batter is smooth.
5. Pour the batter into the spring form and bake in the oven about 20 minutes. Let cool completely.

Fudge

2,5 dl / 1 cup (double) cream
2 tbsp treacle or dark syrup
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cardamom
250 g milk chocolate

1. Heat the cream, syrup and spices in a pan until just about to boil. 
2. Remove pan from heat.
3. Add milk chocolate and mix well until chocolate has melted.
4. Pour the fudge over the cake and let cool.

Decorate the cake with chopped chocolate of your choice and/or berries. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

I had just recently bought this Finnish Fazer Blueberry chocolate and used it together with fresh blueberries to decorate the cake.