People tell us this all the time. Chocolate is just not good for dogs. Yet - we buy them the worming tablets in chocolate. And they just like it so very much!
Dotti was asking very nicely for a piece. (Ok - I am a bad pet owner I did let her lick the bowl) Sorry the photo is a little blurry.
But - the recipe is lovely and easy, tastes delicious and must be a hundred shades of bad for you.
Chocolate cake not for Dotti
Ingredients
1 big cup of strong coffee (instant will do but will taste better with good stuff)
125 grams of butter
250 grams of chocolate (generic tastes fine - but again the better stuff ...)
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups of brown sugar
1 1/2 cups of plain flour
1/4 cup of self raising flour
1/4 cup of cocoa
Method
Over a low heat melt the coffee, butter, chocolate pieces and brown sugar until it all melts. Take off heat and set aside until it is room temperature. (You know the drill - now its time to do laundry, mop floors and assemble soccer gear whilst throwing the ball for the dogs)Preheat the oven to 150 C when the floor is almost dry.
When its cool, add eggs and beat well... then sift in the dry ingredients and mix well. Grease your tin and pour it in. It will be ready in about an hour and a bit. (Time to watch something frivolous on tv - or for those good Mummies to do that thing with the hot triangle thing that makes clothes flat or whatever. Mothers that don't have to do the school taxi thing could imbibe in whatever they felt like.Don't worry - even if you hate chocolate like me - you wont forget this one because it smells so nice.)
The cakes cooked when you put a skewer in it and it comes out clean. Let it cool in the tin before turning out. I just use that cheat icing sugar in the can now days... or you could just dust icing sugar over it and place things on it first to make it have pretty patterns.
Then - make sure the dogs cant reach it! A special feature of this cake is if you freeze it for school lunches - it always tastes fresh... and doesn't seem to freeze completely.. maybe that is just our weather though?
5 comments:
Yum, yum, yum - I'm going to have to try this!
I will have to try this recipe, and thanks for sharing. It won't be quite as hectic for me however (which will sort of take the fun out of it) now my boys are grown. Love your dogs too!
~Sam
It sounds yummy, although I don't like the taste of coffee nor I have ANY in our house so...What dou you say I shuold substitue coffee with?
Plus, how much does a cup weigh?
Plus, what the heck is a self-raising flour?
Never ever heard of this name....
for SzélsőFa I will have to see what else substitutes. Maybe a cup of hot chocolate. I will test and let you know. We buy self raising flour.. and it is plain flour with the raising ingredients.. so creme of tartar and bicarb?
Melissa and the samstress... it is so easy and turns out perfect every time.
I love how the pup is sitting at the table.
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