Easy Chocolate Cake with Fudge Sauce
An Oldie but a goodie
This never fail recipe will quickly become a family favourite. I’ve been making this cake for over 40 years and its always a winner. It takes very little time to make and uses simple ingredients that you would normally have in your pantry and fridge. This is my easy chocolate cake with fudge sauce.
It’s a perfect recipe for those last minute afternoon tea plans as you don’t even have to wait until the cake is cooled you can serve warm with the fudge sauce poured over the top, and even add a dollop of cream, its so good and so easy. I love the fudge sauce too because you don’t need to have icing sugar on hand it uses normal white sugar.
You can also make cupcakes with this recipe and top with a chocolate buttercream icing. Bake for around 12-15 minutes depending on your oven. I used this recipe as part of the birthday cake I made for our 21/50 party if you want to see how that turned out you can here. If you like caramel mud cake I have a great recipe here.
You can make this easy chocolate cake with fudge sauce even more delicious serve it warm with hot fudge and some ice cream. Its like a chocolate pudding.
If you would like to use the recipe for a birthday or special occasion, add some chocolates and raspberries. This is such a versatile recipe.
Easy Chocolate Cake with Old Fashioned Fudge Sauce
Equipment
- Stand Mixer or Hand Mixer
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup self raising flour
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 3 tbsp cocoa
- 90 grams butter
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
Fudge Sauce
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp cocoa
- 2 tbsp cornflour blended with 1 tbsp cold water to form a liquid
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 170°C (fan forced);
- Grease and line your 20cm round cake tin;
- Combine all ingredients in your mixer and beat on high for 3 minutes;
- Pour in to your tin and bake for 35 minutes. Test your cake at the 30 minute mark as different ovens may cook faster;
- Cool cake and then pour over chocolate fudge sauce and let set.
Fudge Sauce
- Place sugar, water, butter and cocoa in a small saucepan. Bring to the boil while stirring to dissolve the sugar.
- Whisk in cornflour mix and whisk over medium/high heat until mixture comes to the boil and sauce thickens. You want the sauce to be thick but still pourable.
- Pour slowly over cake to required thickness.
Notes
- To make the cake extra moist you can poke holes in the top of the cake so the fudge is absorbed in to the centre of the cake. I usually use a chopstick for this;
- If you have leftover fudge sauce you can keep it in the fridge for three days. You can heat the sauce in the microwave for 20-30 seconds on high and then pour over ice cream, delicious!!!
- If you don’t have caster sugar you can substitute regular sugar in this recipe.
Wowza! I can’t wait to try this one, but I’m afraid I may eat the entire cake myself!
Thats the trouble Wendy. The only upside is its not a huge cake!!😂😂. I miss the house being full of kids so I could bake but not eat it all.
This looks truly amazing. I will actually have to try to make this for my husband, he loves chocolate.
If he loves chocolate he will love this one. Its so easy and also makes good cupcakes.