Yummy Chocolatey Goodness!!!

So Sara over at Sara's Kitchen recently posted a recipe for a chocolate brownie pudding cake that I've had in the back of my mind ever since... I HAD to make it. Soon!!! No matter what I'd be doing, images of that cake would pop up in my mind, and I'd think about what it might taste like.

It was all I could think about...

So this Thursday afternoon I knew I wasn't going to be slaving over making a new dinner - it was going to be a night of using up leftovers... I had some yard work that needed to be done, but that was mostly just running soaker hoses, and it was so hot out (reaching the 90s supposedly) that I wanted to stay in more than go out. Good enough reason to dirty some more dishes, and crank up the oven, right?

So you start off by making the cake batter, which is a bit unconventional with just 3 tablespoons of melted butter and zero eggs (this means it's low-fat people!), spread that in a greased pan, and then sprinkle on a mixture of cocoa and brown sugar.


Then you pour on boiling water!! Weird, right??


Bake that sucker up and what comes out looks like a nice, moist cake on top, but hidden underneath is a chocolate sauce that is sooooo good! And I like it even better at room temperature, when that sauce becomes more fudgy.


It's a super simple recipe, and again, low-fat. Sorry - I don't have any pictures of it scooped out. Sara does over at her blog, but her's is more fresh-out-of-the-oven saucy, and she went one step further by dusting it with powdered sugar.

Brett didn't seem too interested in this dessert. He's not big on the gloppy stuff, preferring more of a light, fluffy cake. That's fine - more for me!! The thing is, I need to polish this off ASAP because I'm eager to try a variant. I want to try mixing some orange extract or oil into the batter!!! How good should that be!? And then, when I wipe out that batch, I want to go at it again, but maybe stir in some coconut and almond extract. YUUUUM! And then there's mint.... HM!!

Oh, and as I said, it was a night of leftovers. We had the remains of some yogurt in the fridge after the Chicken Tikka Masala, part of a cuke in the crisper drawer (storebought - the homegrown ones are still no bigger than a half inch), and mint going BONKERS out in the garden. That had me wanting tzatziki (and I see there are tons of other spellings)...which I made up with some salt and garlic...but we don't have anything very greek to eat. So I decided to try thin slices of the cold leftover meatloaf in a small taco-sized tortilla with garden lettuce and tzatziki. It's ALMOST like a gyro - I even told myself the cold ketchupy topping was like having fresh slices of tomato.



Was it good? Eh, yeah, not too bad! I'd have it again sometime, but maybe warm up the meatloaf just a little bit to lose some of the firmness...