Fudgy chocolate squares

These moist chocolate cakes are perfect for occasions with their glossy ganache and sugar flowers.

Serves: Makes 24

Preparation time:  25 minutes

Cooking time:  25 minutes

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You will need

  • 250g unsalted English butter
  • 250g Fairtrade golden caster sugar
  • 4 medium British free range Woodland eggs, lightly beaten
  • 250g British self raising flour
  • 50g cocoa powder
  • 5 tablespoons semi skimmed milk
  • 200g Fairtrade smooth dark chocolate, broken up
  • 200ml British double cream
  • 20g Fairtrade smooth white chocolate
  • Wild rose cake decorations (or other flower decorations)
  • Mini blossoms cake decorations
  • A few fresh mint leaves, optional
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Recipe Information

Step by step guide to making Fudgy chocolate squares

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, fan 160°C, gas mark 4. Line the base and sides of a 20cm x 30cm x 5cm baking tray with baking paper.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar with a hand-held electric whisk until smooth and creamy. Gradually beat in the eggs, a little at a time, until well combined. If the mixture starts to curdle, add 1 tablespoon of the flour.
  3. Sift in the flour and cocoa powder then, using a wooden spoon, carefully fold into the mixture with the milk. Spread the mixture evenly in the tin.
  4. Bake for 25 minutes until the cake springs back to the touch and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.
  5. Make the ganache: melt the dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water (don't let the bowl touch the water). Once melted, take the bowl off the pan and beat in the cream until smooth and glossy.
  6. Spread the ganache over the cooled cake. Leave for a few minutes to set, then cut into 24 squares.
  7. Melt the white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave on high for 30 seconds. Spoon the melted white chocolate into a piping bag and pipe lines over the cakes.
  8. Decorate with the rose and blossom cake decorations and few mint leaves.

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Nutritional information for Fudgy chocolate squares

Nutritional information for Fudgy chocolate squares

Nutrition type per serving
Calories (per square) 271 kcal
Total Fat 17.7g
Saturated Fat 11.0g
Salt 0.17g
Sugar 16.5g

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