Famous. If you make this cake, you will become famous. It is just that good. I sampled this cake on two occasions, made by a different lady each time, and it is truly one of the most glorious indulgences a chocoholic could dream up.
Due to the extreme generosity of one southern Down Under homeschooling mother, I offer you…..Cherryripe mudcake
Ingredients;
250g butter, chopped
1 Tbs instant coffee powder
400ml can coconut milk
200g dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
2 cups caster sugar
3/4 cup SR flour
1 cup P flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 eggs
2 ts vanilla
2 x 85g Cherry Ripe bars, chopped into small pieces
Method;
Grease & line base & sides of deep 22cm round tin.
Melt butter in a large saucepan.
Add coffee, coconut milk, chocolate & sugar.
Stir over heat until choc melts & sugar dissolves.
Cool to room temperature.
Whisk in sifted dry ingredients, then eggs & vanilla.
Stir in half of the Cherry Ripes.
Pour mixture into prepared pan.
Top with remaining Cherry Ripe.
Bake at 160C for about 1 3/4 hours.*
Stand 10 mins, then turn, top-side up, onto wire rack.
* I find that it often takes longer than the time set out in the recipe – even up to 2 1/2 hours sometimes!
Enjoy!
October 19, 2008 at 9:04 am
PANIC!!! ALAK ALAS!! WHAT IS A CHERRY RIPE BAR!!????
what do your 2 kinds of flour mean? describe this bar so I can see if we have something to sub!!
this looks absobloominlutely marvelicious!!!
You have brought me this far….don’t leave me hanging dear dear BB!!
October 19, 2008 at 2:36 pm
No Cherry Ripe bars? That IS tragic!
Here’s a link from a chocolate reviewer, but be warned – it does contain some adult content, so if you have little readers, send them to check the mailbox or something first. ( I would have sent you a family friendly one, but the Cadbury’s official site appears to be down)
Do you have something like that?
The P is for plain flour, which is the sort that doesn’t rise, and the SR is for self raising, and it has baking powdered already added to it.
October 19, 2008 at 3:18 pm
!?you check your blog before going to church?!
I think you are hookedWe love your dedication to supplying us with good quality Australian necessities…By the way, you did it again, look here, number 1!!! Your stats are going to pike yet once again!!!
October 19, 2008 at 3:48 pm
LOL! That’s what it is – selfless dedication to the cause of educating the non-Australian, in matters of, er,….nutrition! Purely altruistic motives, that’s correct, very perceptive Andrea!
Of course, there could be, and I am admitting to the existence of only of a possibility, a very minor addiction to blogging.
I blame my friends really.
If you didn’t amuse, entertain, amuse, encourage, amuse, exhort, and make me laugh so often, (did I mention that you’re a funny bunch?) perhaps I wouldn’t be tempted to check in so often
October 20, 2008 at 10:48 am
YUMMO!! We have TwinBings but I don’t think they have coconut–A mounds or Almond Joy bar sounds closer-but they don’t have cherry. I found a US seller of Aussie goods that has them and I may just have to do a taste-test–you know–to be SURE–in the interest of SCIENCE. ALl of your obvious google popularity aside-I read you because you EXPAND my horizons! (speaking of brooooaaad horizons-if this recipe is any indication-I may need to open up DANDELIONMOM/THE ANNEX!!)
October 20, 2008 at 1:39 pm
LOL! Dandelionmom, Susan was wondering how many times Amanda and I have made this cake since acquiring the recipe? The truth is, I have not been GAME to make it. Because…I have a weakness for cake mix.
That’s right, the mix. And could. you. just. imagine what this cake mix would taste like?!?!?! Talk about broadening horizons
I agree that it would be in the interest of advancing education for you to complete this recipe in your home. From a homeschool perspective, it’s an incredible learning opportunity;
Maths – all that converting and measuring
Social Studies – you would have to finally break out one of those sachets of instant coffee from your box, and see how the other side of the world lives
Geography – discover in how many countries can a supply of cherry ripes be found?
English – of course we will need a review of the end product
Art – take a pretty plate, a fancy napkin, a cake fork, and a piece of the cake, arrange beautifully, and photograph them for your blog
Yes, Dandelionmom, it would be for the good of your family’s education: what higher motive does a mummy need?
October 20, 2008 at 2:43 pm
What about Bible, can you tie a bible study into that one?
October 20, 2008 at 3:27 pm
How about a study on 1 Corinthians 6:12?
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Which is where you tie in your nutrition science, and explain that while we could eat mudcake everyday, it would not be the best choice for maintaining vim and vigor!
October 20, 2008 at 10:18 pm
I am from Sydney originally so I know what a Cherry Ripe bar is but they don’t have them here and if they did they’d be hugely expensive. They don’t even have Allen’s sweets here. I have to get my sister to bring them over everytime she visits.
I make her bring me Jersey Caramels too.
Now you’ve gone and made me all homesick.
Now I’m craving the following-:
* Fingerbuns
* Lamingtons
* Sausage Rolls
* Sausage Sizzles
October 20, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Oh you poor sweetie! They don’t have sausage rolls there? Funny, I have always taken those for granted.
Lamingtons! We had some this afternoon. They’re not something we have often, but I would miss those if I had to live in a lamington-less land
Poor blossom, the real catch is that if you ever return to Sydney, no doubt you will find yourself missing a little something that you can only procure from the place you now live.
My very best suggestion to combat your homesickness is to find that little something that can only be purchased where you live now, and eat it slowly, telling yourself you will remember every nuance of taste, texture, and aroma, and that you will save it up against the day you find yourself in Sydney without one
October 20, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Beyond Blue, that is an excellent suggestion! To train yourself
to be depressed when you leave the new addictions behindto enjoy local food, enjoy what God is providing you in your current situation!With that, I think I am gonna go enjoy some German specialties!
October 21, 2008 at 4:12 am
LOLOL!! and an economics lesson too–you had me on blog-fodder though!!
I’m always up for adventure (and this IS adventure in my little world LOL)-
I am currently baking pumpkin to be turned into pie sweetened with honey–We will savour that American tradition while dreaming of exotic Aussie concoctions to come!
October 21, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Andrea, I believe munching some of that good, German sausage, and washing it down with some Schwarzbier, will help abate any desire for your homeland dish of beaver tails. Yes, I feel sure this will be helpful to you. When you are next home chasing recycled owl dinners, you will think to yourself, “Hmmmmm, a nice piece of sausage, with a side of kraut, would be just the ticket!”
Dandelionmom, consider yourself to have an assignment! (we will be watching the blog for developments..)
October 23, 2008 at 1:20 am
OOOO–now I can even say…but Honey…BB TOLD me to! (after he sees the bill for said $2 each candy bars-and another jar of Vegimite while I’m at it–OK and a box f TimTams
)
October 23, 2008 at 9:16 pm
LOL! I’m sure he’ll enjoy the fruits of your new educational venture
(well, maybe not the vegemite, if I remember correctly
)
October 27, 2008 at 7:48 pm
We need more VEGEMITE
!
Yum! (Still have not tried it on bread, though…)
October 27, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Andrea, that stuff’s not for the faint hearted. If you suspect it may not be to your liking, may I suggest you try it on toast with lots of butter, rather than just bread?
Somehow it’s not so ouchy on toast
October 28, 2008 at 5:06 am
Vegemite Recepie number two: Thumbs up! I think we can safely say: ve like zat ztuv over hier!
October 28, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Ah, you’re a brave family! I wonder what it would taste like on beaver tails..
October 28, 2008 at 9:13 pm
(Oh, take that last remark back, that is disgusting, poor beaver tails…)
*lol*
October 28, 2008 at 9:21 pm
LOL! I won’t, and what’s more, I am waiting to see if you ever get brave enough to eat it off the spoon!
(yes, I really did this as a little girl. Now that I am a grown up, I confess it has lost some of it’s appeal)
October 28, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Are you nuts? I am not!
Let me tell you a story about Marmite (ok I am assuming this is very similar to Vegemite, correct me if I am wrong).
My dear husband spent loads of time in Holland (as you may know) and those dutchmen have wonderful stuff to put on their bread (as you may know) and my husband loves lovely dutch bread toppings (as you may have guessed by now). One of those toppings is “Choko-pasta” (kind of like Nutella, a thick, dark chocolate paste for spreading on your bread).
Well, he was visiting his Aunt and Uncle in northern Germany as a young lad, they had just returned from Australia (they lived there for a few years) and brought Marmite with them. My husband, then a
. Exactly, we all heard you inhale sharply. (I even felt a small breeze here in Germany *duck and run*) Poor boy.
foolishyoung fellow took that Choko-pasta-looking stuff and spread it really thick on his breadSince I am capable of learning from other people’s mistakes, I have decided to not eat it right from the spoon.
October 28, 2008 at 9:37 pm
PS in Canada we dared each other to lick metal poles in winter… is this what you do in Australia instead, dare each other to eat the Vegemite off the spoon?
October 28, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Oh was there ever anything LESS like Nutella than Marmite? Poor, poor soul!!!!
Never mind the sharp intake of breath: in sympathy, I grabbed my throat, choked, and fell off the chair sideways!
Ewwww! I really don’t like marmite (it’s too sweet, but still tastes like vegemite, too gross!) but to have been expecting Nutella, and get marmite instead? That’s a double blow, isn’t it!
Did you actually ever lick the metal? Your voice sounded o.k on the recording, like you are still in possession of your whole tongue, so I’m guessing you were too smart to fall for the dare?
October 29, 2008 at 2:28 am
It goes back to my pen-ultimate comment: I am not nuts!!!
I never got my tongue stuck on a metal object (well, perhaps a spoon in the summer while eating ice cream
).
October 30, 2008 at 4:27 am
Experimenting in the kitchen is lots of fun! Right now I am boiling zucchini in order to make Banana Leather! Never done this before, but I found a great idea on the web… Fruit Leather
Still I wonder, if you can use Vegemite for leather? What ya think?
October 30, 2008 at 6:29 am
Thanks a very interesting idea with the zucchini. I mean, it sounds gross, but you kind of know it would work.
The vegemite on the other hand…
October 30, 2008 at 8:39 pm
The Banana-Zucchini Leather is awesome!!! NO ONE NOTICED that there was Zucchini in it (50% Zucchini!!!).
We went shopping this morning to stock up on new ingredients: grapes, pineapple and zucchini…
Could you just imagine the various sorts you can make? Just consider the spice/fruit/veggie “toss-up” you could create leathers from!!!
October 30, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Hey, now why didn’t you come up with this great plan when poor Dandelionmom had such a surfeit of zucchini her lads had to play cricket with them?
I bet you she’s just the lass to have a drying thingo set up, and while no one in their right mind would want dried zucchini on it’s own, hiding it in fruit like that is inspirational!
November 4, 2008 at 10:59 am
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November 4, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Oh, oh, oh!
Australian Bounty, Mrs. DandilionMom, is not available for us!!! Is the link de-funkt or you hiding your cake from us???
November 4, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I think she must be holding out on us…
November 4, 2008 at 10:52 pm
(Me thinks she gobbled it up *burp*
!)