Today was a pretty low-key day. I had a headache so there was much laying (lying?) around and nap-taking. Charles, Deborah and Annette came over to visit a bit, though not at the same time. Lloyd and I spent the evening watching “Hello, Dolly”, which apparently is a prerequisite to watch Wall-E (I’ll find out about that at a later date). Anyway, the movie was over and I realized I hadn’t taken any pictures of the day. I remembered that my mom and I found a recipe on the internet for making a microwaved cup of chocolate cake. I had the ingredients and decided to give it a go.
Holy cow was it ever gross. Many, many things went wrong here. I didn’t mix the ingredients very well, it spilled all over the microwave, and as I write this I’m realizing that I only put in half the amount of sugar it called for (stupid Lauren). Maybe I should just go to bed. (Didn’t I try this once before?)
Deanne says
Yes, yes in fact you did do it once before. But I bet you’ll never, ever repeat the 1-star priceline thing again, will you? I hope you had a nice, long, headache-removing rest.
Brad says
Except for the not-enough-sugar thing, it doesn’t look that bad to me. A mug brimming over with bubbly chocolate? Seems like a winner.
Rae says
Ok, you said you didn’t mix it well, and it spilled, and you forgot half of the sugar… but how did it taste? I’m with Brad on this one; messy or not I want to taste it.
Lauren says
The lack of sugar made it awful. The texture was …. ok. It helped that I dumped some chopped chocolate in there -- I just ate the pieces that had some melted chocolate and that made it bearable.
Peggy says
I agree with Brad & Rae … chocolate is chocolate, no matter how it looks. And melted chocolate, even better!!
And if it wasn’t quite sweet enough, I would have just sprinkled some 10X sugar on it & wa-la …it would have been gooble, gooble, gooble, harharhar … oops that was my finger … good eatin’.
Curt says
You could also pour chocolate syrup on it. I bet it would taste good then. Chocolate syrup is similar to bar-b-que sauce. It makes bad or tasteless things taste better.
Ooh ooh, then put ice cream on top. Mmmm….Ice Cream.
Peggy says
Yea!!
Mom says
I made the cake, too! Instead of a mug, I dumped the mixed-up ingredients into one of my green straight-sided bowls. Exactly three minutes in the microwave and it was done. The texture was a little coarse, but Dad loved it. Try again! (Note: I just checked your previous site and my recipe was different.)
Jill says
Uh what’s with the knife? Or is that just for kicks.I have a great recipe for a WHOLE cake baked in a bundt pan in the micro. It’s yummy too. BUT (and that’s a big but..) you have to follow directions, silly! I should try it being a self confessed chocoholic. Cheers!
Lauren says
I use the knife to chop calories! Seriously, it was to chop up part of a chocolate bar to throw in. Mom, I’ll have to try again later and report back. Send me your recipe.
Jill says
I like the cutting calories bit, if that only worked I would THIN!
Mark says
That’s brilliant. You just made my day.