Name: Chocolate pecan fudge cake
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 180g unsalted butter, diced; 200g dark chocolate, chopped; 150g marshmallows; 4 eggs, beaten; 1 cup caster sugar; 1 cup plain flour; ¼ cup Dutch cocoa; 1 cup chopped pecans; Vanilla ice-cream, to serve; Caramel rum sauce; 70g unsalted butter, diced; ¼ cup dark rum; ¾ cup dark brown sugar; 300ml thickened cream

Ingredients

180g unsalted butter, diced

200g dark chocolate, chopped

150g marshmallows

4 eggs, beaten

1 cup caster sugar

1 cup plain flour

¼ cup Dutch cocoa

1 cup chopped pecans

Vanilla ice-cream, to serve

Caramel rum sauce

70g unsalted butter, diced

¼ cup dark rum

¾ cup dark brown sugar

300ml thickened cream

Method

1.

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 20cm x 30cm lamington tin and line both sides with baking paper, allowing paper to overhang the sides. Put butter, chocolate and marshmallows in a saucepan and stir over a low heat until marshmallows are almost melted.

2.

Pour mixture into a large bowl and whisk until marshmallows have dissolved. Allow to cool slightly. Whisk in eggs and sugar. Sift flour and cocoa over mixture and whisk in until combined. Stir in pecans.

3.

Pour into prepared tin. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool in tin. Use baking paper to help lift from tin, then put on a chopping board and trim ends. Cut into 9 squares.

4.

To make sauce, whilst cake is baking, put all sauce ingredients in a saucepan and stir over a medium heat until sugar has dissolved. Bring to a simmer. Simmer gently for 10-12 minutes or until mixture turns into a thick dark caramel sauce. Cool slightly.

5.

Serve squares of fudge pudding topped with a scoop of ice-cream and drizzled with sauce.

Recipe Kerrie Worner

With over 20 years in magazines, Kerrie’s work has adorned HB’s pages as contributing food editor, along with BHG, Elle Cuisine, Australian Women’s Weekly and Family Circle. “It is so important to encourage people to learn simple food skills so they can learn how easy it is to fall in love with their creative side,” she says.