So, I’ve been a little quiet on the old baking front. I’ve switched around a few things, pulled up my big girl socks and stepped up the level of organisation at home. Across many levels.
Projects are being completed, we have a clear budget with short term (and long term) goals and we are working better as a team to get shit done.
Lovely and all, but what about baking? Ok, ok. So with the new budget came cut backs on treats. This means no lavish or excessive caking. True story.
So, in true form, I invited friends over for dinner (who couldn’t make it, in the end), purely to have an excuse to male this beast I’d seen roaming around on Facebook.
(Apologies, I can’t remember who shared it originally).
Time: Took 1 hour in my slow cooker, on low. Mine tends to run a little warmer now she’s in her twilight years but it’s always worth checking. Not going to judge if you need to check multiple times (yumyumyum)!
Ingredients:
- Chocolate cake mix (Edmonton were on sale so I got the super moist and generally naughtiest looking one)
- Chocolate mousse sachet (I had a Greggs one hanging around)
- One large block of your favourite chocolate (currently obsessed with Cadbury’s Moro bar)
Instructions:
- Make up the cake mix as per packet instructions. Right up to the ‘put it in the oven’ part.
- Shake toddler loose from leg and bribe with apple. This will only work for five minutes as this is how long it took mine to realise I was working with chocolate…
- Instead of the oven, pop into your slow cooker and smooth a little so you have a sticky spoon to, erm, clean…
- Prepare chocolate mousse as per packet suggestions. Put a tiny bit in a tiny bowl for tiny child who won’t let up now she smells chocolate and waiting minutes to lick the bowl ain’t gonna cut it.
- Gently pour the remainder of mousse over the cake mixture. Don’t stir it. Leave it in a dirty little puddle.
- Break up your beloved block of chocolate and delicately place on top of the mixture. Avoid the sides unless you have a hydraulic attachment in your dishwasher to chip off welded chocolate. If your slow cooker is oval shaped, like mine, it’s accepted not all the chocolate chunks will fit (count them below) so, dispose of the excess as you see fit.
- Pop the lid on the slow cooker and amuse the toddler for an hour.
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