instant chocolate cupcake

[wombat1138]

(for "instant" = ~5min) via a thread on Making Light: http://www.dizzy-dee.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-in-5-minutes

Haven't actually tried this recipe yet, due not having cake flour; haven't yet decided whether to actually go buy some or attempt to work around it-- the equivalent would probably work out to 3.5T all-purpose flour, possibly with the addition of 0.5T cornstarch. Flavor reviews around the web are mixed, but hey, it's instant cake.

There're also a number of variants, some of which sound more appealing than others-- one starts by combining one box each of commercial cake/pudding mix and dividing it into portions (probably adaptable by a book I have somewhere with its own recipes of homemake "instant mixes"); the one at http://www.bakingdelights.com/2007/11/09/quick-microwave-chocolate-fudge-pudding-cake/ is appealing from a logistic standpoint, in that the microwave time is substantially lopped down by using hot/boiling liquid.

(And on a completely different note, the radio discussion on in the background is making me want to throw something at the pastor who's piously arguing that stump-speeching for McCain from his pulpit shouldn't affect his tax status, and that the IRS regulations against this violate the separation of church and state.)

Comments

[geekosaur]

I've made it several times with normal bread flour, nothing special added, no measurement changes needed. I did add more cocoa than they recommended after the first attempt, plus 1/2 tsp. vanilla, and most recently tried putting a cocoa-and-confectioners'-sugar layer on top to make a "molten cake" effect which sadly didn't work so well (needed more liquid, it dried out).

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

If I'm envisioning the same type of "molten cake", iirc those can be done by sticking a chocolate truffle into the middle-- unfortunately(?), I just ate the last two truffles in our stash (the result of buying way too much cream, converting it to ganache, and scooping it into small cold blobs to be rolled smooth and buried in cocoa powder in the fridge).

The egg ratio seems rather high, but unavoidable unless the quantum nature of eggs is bypassed with substitutes (or scaled up to multiple servings per egg).

[recursive.livejournal.com]

OMFG carbs. Also, scary.