triple chocolate marble mud cake

recipe from : http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com

Ingredients

• 50g butter, chopped
• 1 cup hot water
• 2 cups caster sugar
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• 1 1/2 cups plain flour
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 150g white chocolate, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 150g dark chocolate, melted

Ganache

• 300g milk chocolate, chopped
• 3/4 cup thickened cream

Method

1. Grease a deep 19cm-square cake pan; line base and sides with baking paper.

2. Combine butter, hot water and sugar in a medium pan; stir over heat, without boiling, until sugar is dissolved. Transfer mixture to a large bowl. Cool for 15 minutes.

3. Whisk flours into butter mixture, then eggs. Divide mixture in half. Stir white chocolate and vanilla into one portion and dark chocolate into remaining portion.

4. Drop alternate spoonfuls of white chocolate mixture and dark chocolate mixture into prepared pan. Pull a skewer backwards and forwards through mixtures several times to create a marbled effect.

5. Cook in a slow oven, 150 degrees C, for about 1 3/4 hours, or until cooked when tested. Stand cake in pan for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

6. To make ganache combine milk chocolate and cream in a small pan. Stir over a low heat until smooth. Stand at room temperature until mixture is a spreadable consistency.

7. Trim top of cake using a serrated knife; spread Ganache over top and side.