Happy Chocolate Cake Day! Ok, so I’m extended this holiday a few days, but in all fairness I DID have Mexican Chocolate Cake at dinner Friday (Jan 27 - the actual holiday) so it still counts. I decided I’d spread the holiday out a few days and eat chocolate cake at dinner Friday (the holiday), bake the chocolate cake today (1/28), and bring it to Sunday (1/29) family dinner at my Aunt and Uncle’s.
Chocolate (Round) Sheet Cake – from a weight watchers recipe (6 servings, I clearly halved this recipe).
Ingredients:
- 7/8 cup flour – check
- ½ + 1/8 cup light brown sugar – check
- 3/8 cup unsweetened cocoa powder – check
- ¼ cup sugar – check
- ½ + ¼ tsp baking powder - check
- ½ + ¼ tsp baking soda – check
- 1/8 tsp salt
- ½ + 1/8 cup milk – check
- 1.5 egg whites – check, but seriously awkward to try to make this work.
- 1 tbs butter – check
- ½ + ¼ tsp vanilla – check
- ½ cup boiling water – check
- ½ tbs powdered sugar – check
Step 1: Preheat oven to 350F; and prep your preferred pan. Also, melt your butter.
Step 2: In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, cocoa powder, granulated sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt – mix well.
Step 3: In a completely different and bigger bowl mix together the milk, egg whites, butter, and vanilla – mix well until blended. Add boiling water and mix well.
Step 4: Mix wet and dry ingredients. Don’t worry if there are bubbles. It is ok. You probably mixed well.
Step 5: Pour into prepared pan and bake 25-30 minutes; use the toothpick and/or plump it up trick to make sure the cake is done.
Step 6: Find a way to get the cake out of the pan onto a rack to cool. If you didn’t prep the pan with some light oily business you’re going to want to cry and/or some of your cake is going to stay in the pan. That’s ok though, because you’re going to get to use that bit as a taste test.
Step 7: Allow to cool and then plate and cover, while you go out on the town to play Skeeball with friends at this SAHWEET bar in Olde City.
Step 8: Steal some confectioner sugar from your aunt and put it on the cake when you bring it to Sunday family dinner. Also, let your delightful cousin make it look pretty because, well, she’s pretty.
I can’t quite decide which part of this was my favorite…the laziness in which I put the whole thing together, the fact that the cake is a weight watchers recipe and each slice is only 6 points, that the lamb dinner my aunt cooked and we consumed prior to consuming the cake was so epic I am salivating just thinking of it, or that it was enjoyed in the company of my wonderful family. Oh yeah, and the cake was pretty good. Everyone gave it a thumbs up and a “let’s have another piece please, oh! Let’s have it with ice cream”. This foodsperiment gets a +7 for taste, +5 for ease, +5 for a healthy choice, +18 for wonderful dining companions, and +10 for being the perfect cherry on top of a very delightful weekend. Happy Sperimenting!
Chocolate Round Cake
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