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One Pan Chocolate Cake!

22 Thursday May 2014

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This is an amazingly simply and delicious chocolate cake. I had almost all of the ingredients in my cabinet. The best part, you can make it in the pan you will bake it in. Unbelievably, it calls for no eggs or butter! I got this recipe from King Arthur Flour’s website, kingarthurflour.com.

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King Arthur Flour’s original cake-pan cake

You will need:

1 1/2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour

1 cup Sugar

1/4 cup Cocoa

1/2 tsp Salt

1 tsp baking Soda

1 tsp vanilla

1 tbsp vinegar

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 cup cold water or coffee (what I used), or milk

Preheat oven to 350.

Measure all dry ingredients into an 8′ or 9″ baking pan. Be sure the pan is at least 2 inches deep. Blend the dry ingredients together thoroughly with a fork or whisk. Scoop out three holes or indentations.

Pour vanilla into one hole, vinegar into the second, and oil into third.

Take the cup of cold liquid and pour directly over everything in the pan. Stir everything together until well blended.

Bake for 30-35 minutes. Serve right from the pan warm from the oven. OR, ice the cake with this simple frosting. Melt 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips with 1/2 cup of half and half until the chips melt. Stir until smooth and then pour and spread over cake. I melted mine in sauce pan on the stove top.

Chocolate cakeWould you believe my husband hacked into this cake while I was letting it cool? I never got a picture of the entire finished product. It was so good and so easy I wanted to share anyway. This cake is very dense and so different from anything I have ever made. It would be great for a quick dessert that is amazing with ice cream. Enjoy!

 

Savor the Cookie!

19 Wednesday Feb 2014

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molasses cookies

I was watching my family inhale oven warm cookies the other day and could not help but feel a little sad at the speed of their disposal.  It took time to gather the ingredients, mix the right amounts, and dutifully watch the cookies bake so they would be perfect! This family of mine wasn’t even tasting them!! I believe the reason we eat so many cookies when cookies are available, is simply because we don’t taste the first three or four we consume. It’s only when our gut protests that we slow down and taste what we are eating.

The next day, I asked my youngest son to taste his cookie. To describe what it felt like to eat. To close his eyes and take another bite. He ate it slow, and really savored the cookie. I had also forewarned him there was only one cookie to be eaten and no more!

The cookies above are a recipe I found on allrecipes.com a long time ago. It is a molasses cookie and one of my top two all time favorites. I have made a few changes like extra cinnamon.  The secret to perfect cookies is to refrigerate the dough and to NEVER over bake. Never, ever, ever, over bake. If they are almost done, finish them with the oven turned off.  A burnt cookie isn’t worth the calories.

Molasses Cookies

3/4 cup unsalted butter melted

1 cup white sugar

1 egg

1/4 cup molasses

2 cups all-purpose flour (I like King Arthur unbleached)

2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1  1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 cup white sugar (set aside)

1. In a medium size bowl, stir together melted butter and 1 cup sugar. Let sit for a few minutes to cool.

2. Meanwhile. combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl. (except extra sugar)

3. Add egg to butter and sugar mixture until smooth. Next stir in molasses until well blended. Add dry ingredients to the bowl and stir until completely mixed.

4. Refrigerate dough at least one hour.

5. Preheat oven to 375.  Roll dough into tablespoon sized balls and then roll each one in the remaining white sugar.

6. Bake 8-10 minutes. Tops will be cracked when they are done.

Anytime I bring these cookies anywhere, my friends ask for the recipe. I am a chocolate chip cookie girl, but these are pretty amazing. I often freeze half of the dough (already in balls not dipped in sugar) so we have some for later.