Chocolate Lovesauce

 
This is the chocolate cake I made 

for my husband Tanner's Birthday.

It's MY FAVORITE chocolate cake.

I first found the recipe 

reading the memoir A Homemade Life

by Molly Wizenberg...

(I highly recommend it!)

Want to give it a try???

Let's Make a Cake....

Preheat to 375 degrees

Chop up 7 oz. butter (1/2 inch cubes)

Grab 1 Tbsp unbleached all-purpose flour

Chop up 7 oz. dark (good quality) chocolate, I used Ghiradelli

Grab yo eggs, 5 to be exact

Get yourself 1 & 1/3 cup of granulated sugar

In a microwave safe bowl, combine your butter and chocolate

Microwave the butter-choco mixture (stopping & stirring every 30 seconds) until melted

Butter up an 8 inch round cake pan

Add zee sugar

Stir stir stir!

Add your eggs (mixing one at a time)

last but not least, toss in that flour and stir!

Pour that lusciousness into your pan

It's oven time!

Set a timer for about 22-25 minutes

Pull it out when the center just barely wiggles (about 25-26 minutes for me)

Let it cool (while in the pan) for 10 minutes on a rack

PLATING THE CAKE!!! 


*Disclaimer*
 Brace yourself for rambling. 

Drag a knife around the inside of the pan to loosen it up, and cover the cake with foil

Place a plate on top of the sucker (for stability)

Holding the pan and plate, 

with the cake sort of sandwiched in between,

invert the cake onto the foil covered plate

As you can see in the photo,

some of my cake stuck, but no worries, 

I just scooped the goodness

and plopped it back where it belonged...

(P.S. - you can solve this problem

by using buttered parchment paper 

in the bottom of the pan,

but I'm lazy...)

Notice the bottom is up?

Now grab your fancy serving platter or plate

and place it over the cake's bottom.

Using the same move with the foiled plate

and your platter,

invert the cake again.

It should now be face up on your new plate!

Ta-DA!

One of the reasons I love this cake

is the crispy flakey texture it has.

Inside, the cake melts in your mouth...

Rich, chocolatey awesomeness.

Here's a tip. 

Freeze the cake for a while 

to give it a more solid, creamy texture.

Also, you can decorate it with powdered sugar

or fresh strawberries...

Whatever you like.

I normally eat it plain.

Because it's THAT GOOD.

How I decorated it for Tanner's Birthday

Enjoy, my friends!!!