We have our engagement party next weekend and I am making a three tier cake with Chocolate Mud on the bottom, White Mud in the middle and Caramel Mud on the top.
I have been testing recipes all afternoon. The first one was very runny and ended up crunchy, more like a brownie. The second batch white mud was very nice, firm after being in the fridge. The third was the white mud recipe with half the butter to try and make it a bit more dense and it tastes good but none of them are really MUD cakes in the sense of being really dark brown, chocolaty and rich. They are more like your average chocolate cake.
I found all of these recipes through google and I just don't see anything on there that is going to even resemble the kind of cake that I am after.
I should add that it is going to be covered with fondant and gum paste decorations, so it really needs to be moist, dense and hold up.
I have been testing recipes all afternoon. The first one was very runny and ended up crunchy, more like a brownie. The second batch white mud was very nice, firm after being in the fridge. The third was the white mud recipe with half the butter to try and make it a bit more dense and it tastes good but none of them are really MUD cakes in the sense of being really dark brown, chocolaty and rich. They are more like your average chocolate cake.
I found all of these recipes through google and I just don't see anything on there that is going to even resemble the kind of cake that I am after.
I should add that it is going to be covered with fondant and gum paste decorations, so it really needs to be moist, dense and hold up.