Christmas tree mud cake
Christmas tree mud cake, a fun, simple and beautiful treat. Make a delicious mud cake and decorate it with peppermint candy sticks, cream and sprinkles.
Ingredients
150 g butter
75 g dark or milk chocolate
150 g Dansukker Brown Sugar
130 g Dansukker Organic Cane Sugar Fairtrade
3 eggs
135 g plain flour
25 g cocoa powder
2 pinches of salt
Decoration
peppermint candy sticks
icing
whipping cream
sprinkles
Instructions
Heat the oven to 200°C using top and bottom heat.
Grease a rectangular, loose-bottomed cake tin, approx. 13 x 36 cm.
Melt the butter. Chop the chocolate and stir it into the melted butter. Stir to a smooth paste, add the sugar and beat thoroughly by hand. Add one egg at a time while continuing to stir the mixture.
Combine the flour, cocoa powder and salt in a bowl and fold into the chocolate mixture. Pour the mixture into the tin and bake at the centre of the oven for 10-12 minutes. Leave to cool completely.
Cut the mud cake into triangles so that they look like Christmas trees. Insert a peppermint candy stick into each tree. Decorate the Christmas trees with icing, cream and sprinkles.
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