There's a special time of the month when my love for dark chocolate transforms into a rabid, insatiable need, only trumped by water and oxygen. My thoughts become flooded with chocolate raaainnn; I find myself drifting into the pantry at odd hours of the day (and night), in search of any-godforsaken-thing chocolate.
This was one of those times.
Flash forward to Friday night, when we were thumbing through recipe books and the vast interwebs for the ultimate chocolate dessert. After passing on treasures like fruitcake brownies (I can't believe those exist, either), Meka came upon Holly's hot fudge pudding cake. Joy later christened this The Tastiest Crap Ever. Because it looks like crap. It really, really does.
In addition to its sludgy appearance and intoxicating yummy-ness, there's one other thing you should know before making this cake. It uses the weirdest cake recipe, ever. But as it turns out, this amalgamation of weirdness spells deliciousness.
Specifically, the wet cake batter is first topped with a dry batter mixture, which is then flooded with boiling water. I repeat, the final step of this recipe entails pouring boiling water all over the cake batter. Say what?
Well, it shouldn't serve as a surprise that an unconventional recipe would produce an unconventional cake. But hey, unconventional can be a good thing. Especially when it creates this gooey, lava cake-esque masterpiece!
So...if my repeated references to fecal matter hasn't spoiled your appetite yet, I highly, highly recommend you make this cake. I give it 5 stars and a smiley face - no, a shiny Michelin for its ability to kick chocolate craving butt like no other.
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| CHOCOLATE!!!!! CHOCOLATE!!!!! |
Flash forward to Friday night, when we were thumbing through recipe books and the vast interwebs for the ultimate chocolate dessert. After passing on treasures like fruitcake brownies (I can't believe those exist, either), Meka came upon Holly's hot fudge pudding cake. Joy later christened this The Tastiest Crap Ever. Because it looks like crap. It really, really does.
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| Judy's bowl of tasty crap cake. |
But it's unfair to call this cake the Tastiest Crap Ever. That's setting the bar too low. It's probably more accurate to call this the Crappiest Looking Tastiest Cake Ever, but that's also a lot of words.
In addition to its sludgy appearance and intoxicating yummy-ness, there's one other thing you should know before making this cake. It uses the weirdest cake recipe, ever. But as it turns out, this amalgamation of weirdness spells deliciousness.
Specifically, the wet cake batter is first topped with a dry batter mixture, which is then flooded with boiling water. I repeat, the final step of this recipe entails pouring boiling water all over the cake batter. Say what?
Well, it shouldn't serve as a surprise that an unconventional recipe would produce an unconventional cake. But hey, unconventional can be a good thing. Especially when it creates this gooey, lava cake-esque masterpiece!
So...if my repeated references to fecal matter hasn't spoiled your appetite yet, I highly, highly recommend you make this cake. I give it 5 stars and a smiley face - no, a shiny Michelin for its ability to kick chocolate craving butt like no other.
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