I’m calling this cake the Friday 4pm Chocolate Cake because it’s exactly how it’ll make you feel 🙂 If you know, you know 🙂
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The other day I was sitting at home and I felt like a piece of coffee cake, but then suddenly I also felt like a piece of chocolate cake so I thought, why not make a coffee and chocolate cake and then throw some gooey caramel in there for good measure. I mean it’s always fun to fill your pie hole with as much sugary goodness as humanly possible in one sitting right? Right.
So that is exactly what I did! This cake is bitter, sweet and delicious and goes down a treat with a good cup of strong coffee. I think that I should also state here that if you feel like the caramel might be slight overkill, then you can totally leave it out and instead add some whipped vanilla cream or just enjoy a nice thick slice of soft coffee flavoured chocolate cake on its own. No one will judge you, I promise. Mainly because no one else who may be reading this post will ever know.
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.
Have any of you ever heard of or used an Airfryer? Up until two weeks ago, I didn’t even know these things existed and then one came into my life which I used and was so impressed by. It was seriously like watching a magic trick that you could eat afterwards!
I got myself a Philips Airyfryer and when I unpacked this contraption my initial thought was that there was absolutely no ways I was going to get something crispy or fluffy out of a machine that only uses air to cook, but apparently I was dead wrong. So I flipped through the recipe book and I thought I would go from one extreme to the next on my first trip out with this bad boy and chose to make Chicken and Vegetable Spring Rolls and then a whole Chocolate Cake.