![]() patrick’s day! rainy day! thurs-day!) to make it by the weekend– you won’t regret it! Do yourself a favor and find an excuse (birthday! st. Well, now the secret’s out, and you’re in on it too. Everyone loved it and no one would have guessed it had only taken me 20 minutes to prepare (not including bake time). The tip of my slice was reminiscent of slow-oozing molten lava cake goodness which gave way to a firmer, rich cake with just the right amount of crackle on the top. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not a looker, but hey, it’s what’s on the inside (of your mouth!) that counts. It was exactly as the recipe promised: “oooey gooey and perfectly chewy chocolate brownie makes sweet passionate love to a moist and rich chocolate cake”-perfection. ![]() Now, this would all be for naught if the cake didn’t turn out, but it did. With 15 minutes to spare! I popped it into the oven, and spent the next 15 minutes feeling pretty awesome. I successively mixed in the next four ingredients, and then suddenly… I was done. I would either pat myself on the back or have no cake at the end of this. The proper baker within complained that the chocolate wasn’t going to melt properly, but the potential time savings from 10-minutes down to 2-minutes was too tempting to pass up. I nixed the double-boiler instructions in favor of melting the chocolate for two minutes in a big Pyrex bowl. I made a game-time adjustment to use my springform pan instead of the 8-inch round pan suggested, because I couldn’t imagine how such a dense and possible gooey cake would flip out without breaking into sad, un-birthday-cake-y hunks. European-style high-butterfat butter? Sorry Mom, Costco butter tonight. So I set to action, taking every shortcut I could think to take (on an already-simple recipe) and hoped for the best.īest quality dark chocolate? TJ’s would have to do (just linking for reference, as it’s much cheaper in the store than on Amazon). Today needed that little bit of birthday special, and I would bring it. ![]() I deliberated for about ten more seconds, then remembered how much we always enjoyed chocolate cakes for Mom’s birthday in years past. It looked totally doable, but my own “mommy-brain” had also been causing me to make a number of mishaps in the kitchen lately, and I couldn’t afford that with just 35 minutes on the clock. I bit my lip and skimmed the recipe again. It was 4:55 and I was expecting my family over at 5:30 for my mom’s birthday dinner. Gateau Au Chocolat Fondant de Nathalie Recipe
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