Of chocolate and malt.
A while back I made some passing reference to chocolate malt cake, and I may even have gone so far as to add that I’d post a recipe at some point. Foolish me. Those words sealed the fate of that recipe for at least a month, as I then promptly went away for a week or so, and had a general melt-down. Well, meltdown over, I now present said recipe, along with an apology for its being so long in coming. I know what chocolate and malt means, gentle reader, and I don’t mess with such power lightly.
Chocolate Malt Cake
Ingredients
Chocolate and malt. Ha. Had you there, didn’t I? But seriously…
2 mugs self-raising flour
2 large-ish eggs (in my case, three smallish blue ones, I think)
½ mug dark brown sugar
½ mug malt extract
¼ mug cocoa
¼ mug sunflower oil
Yes. I used mugs. Not cups. BECAUSE I AM GREEDY.
Then…
Sling the lot in a large bowl and beat the buggery out of it. Pour the resulting shiny happy mixtureness into an oiled loaf tin (or a smug-inducing silicone one which requires no such fiddling) and cook in YOUR NEW OVEN WHICH HEATS UP IN ONE NANOSECOND AND ISN’T COVERED IN A MYSTERIOUS FILM OF OIL for about forty-five minutes on 180°c.
All clear?
i comically read ‘yeast extract’ and puzzled…. ah well the wonders of too little sleep – more on that on my blog soon EW
i quite fancy the idea of making that, might use the malt extract listed rather than the yeas extract my poor sleep-deprived brain imagined!
I’m in love already. Will be making this perfectly muddled choco-malt cake tomorrow with the biggest mug I can find. Thanks!
~L♥ve your measurements…sounds kind of liek the way i cook and bake! thank you for passing this along…sounds so yummy…will definitely be making this…brightest blessings~
Oh Earthenwitch! I have always loved your recipe style.
Your cooking style is like my own which is how I was taught to cook. Unfortunately, being a gluten free girl, I still have to fiddle with your great recipes but they remain yours in the spirit of staring at mixture and saying ‘that looks about right’.
yea! you go new oven:)
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