Additionally, I don't have a camera anymore, unless ya'll want me to use my cell phone camera, which is like THIS CLOSE to giving up the ghost anyway. So, you know, use your imaginations.
THE CAKE
You will need:
4 oz bittersweet chocolate (I like using Ghiradelli)
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder + some extra for sprinkling (because really, who doesn't like sprinkling?) (also, who just happens to have ONLY 1/2 cup of cocoa powder lying around? Totally worth saving some to sprinkle.)
It is worth noting that you will also need parchment paper, some sort of non-stick buttery type item, an 8-inch cake pan, a working oven etc etc etc. I'm going to assume that you do in fact have all these things and skip to the recipe.
1. Oven: 375 degrees.
2. Pan: Buttered/sprayed/nonsticked and lined with a round of parchment paper (or wax paper).
3. Chocolate: Chopped into bits, then melted with the butter and stirred til smooth. The recipe says use a double boiler but we ain't so hoity toity round these parts so I just use the microwave in 30-second increments.
4. Sugar: Whisked into choco-butter-melty-goodness. (Alternately, you can transfer the melty yum into a larger bowl that DIDN'T fit in the microwave and whisk the sugar into it then.)
5. Eggs: Added, whisked, quickly forgotten, never mourned.
6. Cocoa powder: Sifted into batter and mixed until just combined.
7. Batter: Sampled delicately. Sampled again. Wrestled away from cook, then poured into pan and baked in the middle of the oven for 25 minutes.
8. Cake: Cooled for 5 min, then inverted onto a serving plate and dusted with additional cocoa.
9. Hungry people: Devour cake with the enthusiasm of a zombie horde.
Hope you enjoy! Relatively stress-free recipe and also PHENOMENALLY DELICIOUS. Plus, you remember those Got Milk? commercials where the dude eats a big ol hunk of cake and then goes for the milk and there's none and he's like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ? Yeah, like that. So you probably want to make sure there's milk handy to go with this puppy.
Love,
TWC
