KBB Going Muddy

What will mud cake be when it is combined with chocolate biscuit and chocolate ganache? Sensational, perhaps. Maybe luxury. Everything is dark and delicious. Luscious. Prestigious.

KBB this month is throwing in delicious muddy biscuit sandwiches into cookie jars. Mud Cake Cookie Sandwiches, to be quite exact. Here is the recipe.

Mud Cake Cookie Sandwiches

Source: The Australian Women's Weekly: cupcakes, cheesecake, cookies. ACP Magazine Ltd. 2008

Makes 24

250g butter, softened

330g firmly packed brown sugar

2 eggs

450g plain flour

75g self-raising flour

50g cocoa powder

2 Tbs cocoa powder, extra

Chocolate Mud Cake

150g butter, chopped

100g dark eating chocolate, chopped coarsely

220g caster sugar

125ml water

2 Tbs coffee liqueur

150g plain flour

2 Tbs cocoa powder

2 egg yolks

Combine butter, chocolate, sugar, the water and liqueur in small saucepan. Stir over low heat until smooth. Place mixture in medium bowl; cool 10 minutes. Whisk in sifted flour and cocoa, then egg yolks. Bake about 25 minutes. Cool cakes in pans. Using 6.5cm round cutter, cut 12 rounds from each cake.

Chocolate Ganache

80ml cream

200g dark eating chocolate, chopped coarsely

Bring cream to a boil in small saucepan; remove from heat. Add chocolate; stir until smooth. Refrigerate until spreadable.

1. Preheat oven to 170C/150C fan-forced. Grease two 20cm x 30cm lamington pans; line with a strip of baking paper, extending paper 2cm above edges of pans.
2. Make chocolate mud cake.
3. Make chocolate ganache.
4. Beat butter, sugar and eggs in small bowl with electric mixer until combined. Transfer mixture to large bowl; stir in sifted flours and cocoa, in two batches. Knead dough on floured surface until smooth; divide in half, roll each portion between sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick. Cover; refrigerate 30 minutes.
5. Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan-forced. Grease oven trays; line with baking paper.
6. Using 6.5cm round cutter, cut 48 rounds from dough. Place about 3cm apart on oven trays. Bake about 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks.
7. Spread ganache onto underside of cookies; sandwich a mud cake round between two cookies.
8. Using heart template, dust cookies with extra cocoa.

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Review in Bahasa Indonesia

Untuk pembuatan mud cake ga masalah. Cuma kok kayaknya terlalu sedikit untuk 2 loyang ukuran 30cm? Jadinya tipis banget. Adonannya mirip2 brownies, jadi gampang rapuh dan retak ketika dipotong pake cutter. Mungkin pemanggangan perlu agak basah, diangkat supaya lebih gampang dan lebih nyoklat jadinya. Punyaku sih ga begitu kering, cuma atasnya dah mirip brownies. Mungkin juga pengaruh gula. 

Ngomong2 soal gula, aku kurangi jumlah gula untuk mud cake jadi 220g saja, untuk biskuitnya 150g saja. Itupun ketika jadi masih manis menurutku, tapi ini relatif ya. Kalo soal kukis coklat, aku lebih suka yang nyoklat, ga terlalu manis, tp lebih kental coklatnya. Kalo terlalu manis rasa coklatnya malah tertutup oleh rasa gula. Nah terus di mud cake aku ga pake coffee liqueur tapi pake kopi aja dua sendok, dimasak bareng.

Nah ketika menggunakan cutter, 8 potongan pertama, aku pake pastry cutter (ga punya cutter bulat polos) ukuran 6cm, yang paling mendekati, soalnya yg lain2 lebih kecil dan lebih besar dari ukuran tsb. Begitu aku potong, kok gede amat ya? Ga manis kelihatannya utk ukuran penyajian. Jadi aku cobain pake cutter jadi2an (dari pipa polos) ukuran 5cm, malah lebih sesuai kelihatannya. Jadi dari mud cake aku cuma potong 4 bulatan ukuran 6cm, dan yg selebihnya ukuran 5cm.

Soal rasa jangan ditanya. Utk ganache aku pake Whittaker's 72% dark chocolate. Diberi sedikit esens caramel di campuran krim dan coklat, wanginya lumayan wangi karamel. Karena aku ga bisa makan terlalu banyak, jadi aku gigit sedikit. Biskuitnya renyah banget (ini karena aku ga pake tangan ngadoninnya, mengangkat biskuit dari cetakan pun pake spatula), ditimpali dengan mud cake yg nyoklat dan ganache yang nyoklat banget, wiiiiiiihhh buat pencinta coklat jangan ketinggalan deeeeeeeh!! Kalo ga inget si calon bebih di perut nih pengen banget tuh coklat aku embat ampe ke akar2nya hihihihi...