Chocolate Mud Cake

I had baked this chocolate mud cake a couple of times.  I came across the recipe in New Zealand Women's weekly magazine.  It's a recipe featuring a product from manufacturer. They look simple enough to make.   Found out this actually tastes a lot better if you let it sit overnight. The texture is very rich, and kind of 'mud cake' like.

So here's the recipe if you would like to try making it:

Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups self raising flour (I used 1 and 3/4 cup plain flour with 1 and 3/4 tsp baking powder)
1 3/4 cups sugar  (I used 1 and 1/2 cups sugar)
3/4 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 cup Mayonnaise (I use the real stuff, not the 'lite' version)
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups milk

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 175 degrees.  Sift flour, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder into a large mixing bowl and stir in sugar.  Add egg, mayonnaise, vanilla and milk and beat together on low speed until combined, increase speed and beat at medium for 2 minutes.  Pour into a lined 23cm cake tin and bake 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out with a small amount of fudgy mixture.

To make chocolate ganache icing melt together 150gms dark chocolate with 1/4 cup cream and 30gms butter until smooth and dark.  Let cool then spread onto cake  Serve with summer berries, cream and extra chocolate sauce. (I have skipped the ganache and just dust with icing sugar. I will attempt chocolate ganache icing perhaps another time)

note:  I had to bake my cake for more than 50 minutes (or nearly an hour) until the skewer come out with only small amount of fudgy mixture.

Abel loves this cake and it's my go to cake if he asks for chocolate cake.