So the other day I wrote up how to make a nice, WLS friendly, yellow cake. This all started with a recent BTV episode where they made a 35-second chocolate cake. You can get the original recipe in their forums, but me being me, I had to tweek it to my own needs. And it turned out rather well if I do say so myself, and this one is easy peasy. While the yellow cake calls for complicated baking procedures like “creaming”, if you can make chocolate milk and microwave popcorn, you can make this cake.
Here’s what you need:
2 rounded Tablespoons of multi-purpose baking mix (what I used)
1 Tablespoon vanilla protein powder
2 Tablespoons Sugar-Free NesQuik
2 Tablespoons + 1 teaspoon milk
1 teaspoon olive oil
pinch of salt
Here’s what you do:
In a small bowl mix the baking mix, protein powder and salt.
In a small cup, pour in the milk and add the NesQuik, stirring to disolve. I found doing it this way makes sure the Quik disolves rather than being all lumpy in the cake.
Pour the chocolate milk in to the bowl with the dry stuff, add the olive oil and stir till smooth.
Spray a coffee cup, ceramic bowl, ramakin or a couple silicone muffin cups with no-stick spray. I found a silicone mini bundt pan at the dollar store, and pick that up for this sort of stuff.
Put in the microwave and set for 35 seconds. If you have an average 800 watt oven, this should be fine. If you have a larger oven, go for 30 seconds or it may end up too dried out.
After cooking, take the cake out of the microwave, let it set for a minute or so before popping out on to a plate to cool… or eat while warm.
I made this using the new silicone bundt pan (one of those ring like pans with the hole in the middle) for my mom’s bday dinner I cooked her tonight, topped it with some SF Cool Whip and a drizzle of SF Hershey’s syrup and we split it. was perfect portions for us.
Next weekend I’m going to make one in a coffee mug, slice in to layers and try making a couple of “ice cream” sandwiches by freezing a couple slices of cake with a dollop of the SF Cool Whip between them.
The original recipe on BTV has just a few more ingredients, but this version I added the protein powder and substituted some things that I think would be more at home in the typical dudes kitchen… and are things that will likely see more use for a former fat dude that some of the original ingredients. But if you want, try them both out and see which works best for you!
This looks amazing! Since I’m not a WLS patient, I don’t use protein powder, but rather fiber powder! :)
or just skip it too, but you can reduce the milk to an even 2T then.
YUMMMMM! Nice! Thanks :) You think I could use ovaltine instead of nesquik?