Chocolate mud cake

1 1/2c hot water
250g butter
200g dark cooking chocolate
1/4c cocoa
2c castor sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2tsp vanilla
1 1/2c self raising flour

- Preheat oven to 150deg C
- In a saucepan over low heat, melt butter, sugar, chocolate, cocoa, vanilla and water
- Let mixture cool then add eggs & flour. Mixture will still be runny
- Bake for 1 h 15 mins

Ice with whatever icing you want... This cake was EPIC! I have a huge sweet tooth and I could barely get through a slice the width of two of those kitkat fingers, it truly was chocolate mud cake- so rich! Definitely recommend this, and I especially like it before it doesn't have any unusual ingredients (e.g. buttermilk) like most mud cake recipes. Easy peasy! Mine was a bit lumpy though, possibly didn't melt the ingredients in the saucepan enough, or should have used the electric beater when I put the flour etc in. But it went down a treat, I just hope the birthday girl liked it!