Cadbury Dark Chocolate Dessert Cake

Ingredients

• 250g unsalted butter, chopped
• 200g Cadbury Dark Cooking chocolate, chopped
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee powder
• 1½ cups boiling water
• 1½ cups caster sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1½ cups self raising flour, sifted
• ½ cup cocoa, sifted

Chocolate Frosting

• 150g Cadbury Dark Cooking Chocolate
• 40g butter

Method

Preheat oven to 160ºC conventional 140ºC fan forced. Lightly grease and line the base of 28cm round cake pan.

Combine butter and chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and melt over a low heat. Dissolve coffee in boiling water. Add coffee and sugar to chocolate mixture and stir to dissolve sugar. Transfer to bowl and allow to cool 10 minutes.

Using an electric mixer gradually add vanilla and eggs. Then flour and cocoa. Mix a further 2 minutes or until evenly combined. Pour into cake pan and bake for 1 - 1¼ hours. Test with skewer inserted into the middle of the cake. Cool in pan for 30 minutes, before turning onto wire rack.

Chocolate Frosting: Combine chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of simmering water; stir to combine. Allow to cool slightly and spread over top of cake.