Even though we don't eat much sugar, chocolate cake is still an occasional treat. The thing I hate about baking is cleaning up, so this "one pot" cake is my favourite recipe! If I could take the handle off the pot and put the entire thing in the oven I would....
Rather than "creaming" the butter and sugar, in this recipe you dissolve the sugar, cocoa powder and butter in milk by heating it in a pot. I then stir in the 2 eggs and the flour and scoop the batter into a cake tin. The only thing to remember is to let the mixture cool enough before adding the eggs, so that they don't cook :)
Transfer to a cake tin and cook for 40 min in your woodstove or in a normal oven at 180 degC
What do you think? Do you have a one pot cake recipe?
Rather than "creaming" the butter and sugar, in this recipe you dissolve the sugar, cocoa powder and butter in milk by heating it in a pot. I then stir in the 2 eggs and the flour and scoop the batter into a cake tin. The only thing to remember is to let the mixture cool enough before adding the eggs, so that they don't cook :)
Heat in a pot until combined (keep heat as low as possible, otherwise you have to wait for ages for it to all cool down, the butter will melt just above body temperature, so it doesn't need much heat):
1 cup milk
1 1/4 cups sugar (I use whatever I have, this time brown sugar, when that's used up I'm on to the rapadura)
125g butter
1/2 cup cocoa powder (using up the normal stuff, then have a stash of organic powder)
1 tsp bicarb soda
When the mixture is cool enough, beat in:
2 eggs
And then:
1 1/2 cup wheat flour (I used 1 of white and 1/2 of wholemeal)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
What do you think? Do you have a one pot cake recipe?
Well it looks simple enough, I will see if the wife will give it a try. I do the cooking of meals and she bakes stuff like cakes. She made a crock pot chocolate cake once that was a disaster, I wanted to shove it down a ground hog hole.
ReplyDeleteI have a recipe very similar to this one, which I am in fact using today for a birthday celebration tomorrow. It is my go to recipe when I need to bake a cake.
ReplyDeleteSimple, quick and easy - I like it. Thinking I will try this tonight!!
ReplyDeleteI make one very similar and it always turns out moist. I love it as there aren't many bowls that need washing up afterwards. Glad you added the wood stove directions as well!
ReplyDeleteLooks Yummy, can't wait to try it!
ReplyDeleteThanks all, hope you enjoy it!
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