Recipe: Swedish Mudcake

This is very much a Swedish thing. It's something we call "kladdkaka" which literally translates to "sticky cake". It's a sort of chocolate cake without baking powder, and with a gooey middle. Best enjoyed with whipped cream, or after a night in the fridge. Or both. Or, and this is my favourite, when you really really shouldn't.

Ingredients

150 g butter

450 ml sugar

225 ml flour

90 ml cacao powder

A bit of salt and a bit of vanilla sugar

3 eggs

Algorithm

Set the oven to 160C/320F.

Melt the butter.

Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.

Add the butter and mix it in.

Add the eggs and mix it all.

Pour it in a cake pan. Pretty much any kind will do.

Put in the oven for about 35 minutes. When it's done you can gently shake the pan without it behaving like a liquid.

Let cool. Remember that it'll solidify a bit more as it cools. When it's still warm the middle will probably be very very gooey. That's not by any means a bad thing, of course. It's kind of the point.

I use one of these cake pans, because with the removable sides I can wedge a baking paper in there and it won't stick.

This is what it looks like when it's done. Mmmm. Delicious.

-- CC0 ew0k, 2021-10-12