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Advent chocolate cake with festive decoration
Rich chocolate advent cake with festive decoration

Advent Chocolate Mud Cake

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Cakes and Desserts
This cake is a celebration of cocoa and chocolate. The duo of cocoa powder and chocolate in the dough gives a deep, intense flavour, whilst the molasses character of the brown sugar evokes the mood of Christmas spices. The silkiness of the ganache cream crowns this rich dessert.
🕒 Prep Time 40 mins
🍳 Cook Time 35 mins
⌛ Total Time 1 hr 15 mins
🍽️ Servings 12 servings
🔥 Calories 650 kcal
🌍 Cuisine International

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Cake tin (22 cm).
  • Mixing bowls.
  • Whisk.
  • Bain-marie.

Allergen Information

⚠️ Cereals containing gluten
⚠️ Eggs
⚠️ Milk

Instructions

1 ✓

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease the tin. Sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt together.

Tip: Cocoa powder tends to clump; sieving is essential.
2 ✓

Beat the butter with the two types of sugar, then add the eggs one by one.

Tip: The acidity and moisture content of the brown sugar makes the cake softer.
3 ✓

Melt the 200g chocolate, leave to cool to lukewarm, and mix into the buttery mass along with the vanilla.

Tip: If you pour it in hot, the butter will melt and separate.
4 ✓

Add the flour mixture and the milk alternately to the mass.

Tip: Do not overmix, only until it comes together.
5 ✓

Bake for 30-35 minutes. When tested with a skewer, the skewer should be a little sticky, but not have runny batter on it.

Tip: If the skewer is completely dry, you have overbaked the chocolate cake.
6 ✓

Cool completely. For the cream, whip the cream with the icing sugar, then drizzle in 50g of melted (but cold!) chocolate.

Tip: Or make ganache: hot cream + chocolate, then cool and whip.
7 ✓

Coat the cake and decorate with stars.

Tip: The decoration makes it festive.

Recipe FAQ

Why is the cake dense?
This is a 'mud cake' style sweet, the essence of which is the dense, moist consistency. It is not supposed to be sponge-like.

Ingredients

  • 250 g Plain flour
  • 200 g Granulated sugar
  • 50 g Brown sugar
  • 50 g Cocoa powder (unsweetened)
  • 200 g Dark chocolate
  • 150 g Butter (room temperature)
  • 4 pcs Eggs
  • 150 ml Milk
  • 10 g Baking powder
  • 5 ml Vanilla extract
  • 200 ml Double cream
  • 150 g Icing sugar
  • 50 g Dark chocolate shavings
  • 10 pcs Edible stars (decoration)
  • 1 pinch Salt