Chocolate Bar Cake

Ultra dense and intense chocolate flavor.

Last night some friends and I celebrated our friends Callie and Kiki's birthday. This time I really had to make a cake (I wasn't just trying to find some reason to occupy my time.)
Both Kiki and Callie love chocolate so I thought I would make a family recipe of chocolate bar cake. It is dense, rich chocolate that requires no icing, and is simply delicious.


Recipe:
Ingredients: Directions:
2 sticks butter
2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup buttermilk/sourmilk
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 oz milk chocolate bars
1 small can/ 5 1/2 oz chocolate syrup


Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 F and generously grease a 10" tube pan.

This was a mega-sized chocolate bar.

In a double broiler, pour in the chocolate syrup and break up the milk chocolate bars. Melt the chocolate bars into the syrup, using a spoon to stir to make sure the chocolates mix well together.
In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar and then add each egg one at a time. Mix the baking soda and buttermilk and alternate adding this buttermilk mixture and the sifted flour until both are mixed into the batter. Finally, blend in the chocolate mixture and vanilla completely.
Pour the batter into your already greased pan and place in the oven for 1 hour 15-20 minutes.

The perfect cake for anyone who loves chocolate. It can be easily decorated if you so chose, and its round shape makes it easy for slicing.

Reese’s Cup Brownie Bites

I was at the local grocery store today which can often have very expensive prices, but behind the counter I saw a special for ½ off holiday candy. I’ve been meaning to bake something with reese’s cups, so when I saw them on sale I quickly snatched them up and whipped up something easy and bite sized that makes great peanut butter cups even better.

Who cares about holiday wrappers
when you're taking them off anyways?

Ingredients:

3/4  cup butter, melted


3/4 cup white sugar


3/4 cup brown sugar, packed


2 teaspoons vanilla extract


2 eggs


3/4 cup all-purpose flour


1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1/8 cup chocolate syrup

½ teaspoon salt


40 mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Directions:

The syrup makes them super moist.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.  Grease mini cupcake pans and set aside.  In a medium bowl mix the melted butter, sugars and vanilla, and then beat in the eggs and chocolate syrup. Slowly add the flour, cocoa, and salt and mix everything together.  Fill each cupcake spot until it is about 2/3 of the way full. Finally, insert a peanut butter cup into each cupcake until it is basically in line with the chocolate batter.

Bake in the oven for 15-18 minutes and then allow them to cool before removing them from their tins.

The inside was soft and gooey but the top had a light crispiness that tasted soo good. Good for any peanut butter and chocolate lover.