A few days back one of my good friends, who is gluten-free celebrated their birthday and I wanted to make them a gluten-free chocolate cake to enjoy. I looked around for some recipes then came across The Loopy Whisk who makes the most incredible looking cakes and dishes.
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I can’t tell you how often during the day I feel like a fat piece of chocolate cake! I think anyone who hangs out with me a lot probably hears me say this at least once a week. There is just something about a fresh, homemade slice of cake that is pillowy soft and chocolatey that just makes me so happy.
I’ve got to be honest though, I don’t often go to a coffee shop or restaurant and find a good piece of chocolate cake, so more often than not I just land up taking these cravings into my own hands. So when I discover a new recipe that requires minimal effort, ingredients and time and yields a fat piece of yummy homemade chocolate cake, I’m over the moon and this weekend I added another one of them to my list of go-to-recipes and it’s for this One Bowl Chocolate Cake with Velvety Chocolate Icing.
I’m guessing that 98% of you who read this post will agree with me when I say that cake is awesome and so is a good hot chocolate! The other 2% that don’t I’m also guessing have stumbled across my blog by mistake, whilst searching for talking mystical lucky ponies who they are convinced live amongst us and are biding their time before they take over the world.
Here and there on Pinterest I have been seeing quite a lot of something called a Hot Chocolate Cake which combines chocolate cake, chocolate-fudge-like icing, and marshmallow frosting together, which are all drool-worthy components so I was like I need to make me a Hot Chocolate Cake now. Cut to three failed cake bakes and two chocolate icing recipes later and finally I had managed to put together a Hot Chocolate Cake which I thought was worthy of the 98% of you who I know will love it, as well as the remaining 2% and their future leaders The Talking Ponies.
Every now and then it nice to bake something that requires very little effort, something that isn’t super fancy but still hits you right in the sweet spot good and proper. Yesterday I really felt like a slice of chocolate cake but I didn’t feel like the mission of making icing for it, luckily for me I’ve been saving this particular recipe in my to-bake folder for a while now and so I thought I would give it a whirl.
This cake is the perfect accompaniment for a hot cup a tea or an easy to transport snack for say a picnic or a packed lunch. As a side note, how cute is my red tiffin that I got from Pilgrimage Spaces? I’ve been looking for one for ages! I love it.
I had to bake a cake for my friend’s child’s first birthday party last weekend, so I went with a chocolate one because everyone, no matter what anyone says loves chocolate cake, unless you are nuts or live in a small hole in the ground somewhere. I have a very nice chocolate cake recipe that works every time I whip it out, but this time around I thought I would try the recipe below that I got off Desserts For Breakfast. It came out very nicely, not the same as my usual one, but still very nicely. I didn’t try her icing recipe, instead I stuck to the one I like, but if you’re keen to try hers, just click here.
Today is my dad’s birthday and him and my mom arrived yesterday from Zimbabwe to spend a few days with me in JHB. Last night I decided to bake him a chocolate cake for his birthday. He hasn’t seen it yet, I hid it away because I knew if he saw it last night he would want to cut into it right then and there. My dad is just like me when it comes to cake, he can’t ever resist. Ha.