Chocolate mud cake with white chocolate sauce

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NZ Woman's Weekly 22/10/2005

This is a classic recipe that will please any crowd.

250 g	Butter
300 g	Dark chocolate
4 tsp	Instant coffee, powder or granules
¾ cup	Brown sugar
3	Eggs
2 tsp	Vanilla essence/extract
1 cup	Flour
¼ cup	Cocoa powder
1 tsp	Baking powder
¾ cup	Water

Break chocolate up roughly. Chop butter up roughly. Place chocolate and butter in a saucepan with coffee, water and brown sugar. Stir over medium heat until chocolate melts. Cool.
Beat eggs and mix into chocolate mixture with vanilla. Sift flour, cocoa and baking powder together. Mix flour mixture into chocolate mixture and combine.
Line the base of a 20cm cake tin with baking paper. Pour mixture into tin.
Bake at 160 degC for 1¼ hours. Cool in tin for 10 minutes. Turn out and cool completely. Drizzle with white chocolate sauce.
To make sauce - Break chocolate into pieces. Place in a saucepan with butter and one cup of the measured milk. Heat until melted. Mix remaining milk with custard powder and vanilla essence. Pour into warm milk mixture. Stir until sauce thickens.

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