Desserts for two
Most nights around our house, somewhere between doing dishes and making a cup of tea, discussion turns to making a sweet dessert. We don’t buy cookies or cakes at the store - nothing wrong with them, it’s just a matter of preference and self control.
You see a bag of cookies just screams out to be eaten, we comply and then wish we hadn’t. So our pact is: if you want sweets for dessert you need to bake them after supper. Not a problem, actually. Cookies, cakes and other treats can end up on the dessert plate quite quickly when you are motivated. Jules can have any number of cookies ready from scratch in 20 - 25 minutes. On the nights without motivation, we are saved from eating something we probably don’t need.
My vote is always for brownies, my current fave is this recipe for Black and Tan Brownies.
Problem is leftovers. I work from a home office, and try as I might the leftover brownies usually don’t make it to supper on the second day.
Enter this Molten Chocolate Cake Recipe for Two.
In the video Julie whips it together in no time, and it uses very few ingredients.
So when is a molten chocolate cake not a brownie? I’m sure that the lack of a leavening agent might have something to do with it, but it’s probably just in the cooking time. Follow the directions and you get an oooey goooey mess that tastes great - if you don’t burn your tongue because you couldn’t wait for it to cool.
If you cook it a bit longer the centre firms up and you have something that’s just like a brownie, dense and chocolately.
The video goes live on Friday June 12, we hope you enjoy it.
