Slab Cakes - Chocolate Chip

 

Long time no blog! Haha. Time flies and stands still when you’re in the middle of a pandemic. And for some reason there is so much to do. I have been on a bit of a break from work and am trying out a ton of slab cake recipes that I found. The first one is a chocolate one and boy was it delicious and so moist and fluffy!

Ingredients for the Cake…

1/2 cup of margarine, melted and cooled

1 1/3 cups flour

1/2 cup cocoa powder

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

4 large eggs

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup sour cream

Ingredients for the Chocolate Icing…

1 cup of margarine, softened

2 cups icing sugar

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1/4 cup milk

2 tbsp. or more of mini chocolate chips or sprinkles for topping 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 inch pan. Line with parchment, leaving a 2 inch overhang on long sides. Grease parchment.

                                                        

Whisk the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.

Combine eggs and granulated sugar in the bowl and beat on high speed until thick and pale, about 4 minutes.

Add flour mixture; beat just to combine.

Add butter and vanilla; beat to combine.

Add sour cream; beat until smooth.

Scrape batter into prepared pan.

Bake until top springs back when lightly touched and a toothpick comes out clean and batter free about 30 to 35 minutes.

Let cool in pan for about 10 minutes.

Using parchment overhangs, lift out of pan and let cool completely on rack.

For the frosting…

Beat together margarine, icing sugar, cocoa, and milk on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.

Spread over top of cake.

Decorate with chocolate sprinkles or I used mini chocolate chips which were so delicious.

 

Caramel Apple Slices

Today is Halloween and our last apple post as well. Our final apple post is a yummy one, we’re doing a variation of the caramel apple which is quite fitting as caramel apples remind me of Halloween. We’ve tried a sliced dipped apple with toppings that you can dip your apple in. You can try so many different variations and toppings. Check out our apple dipping Friday night...

First of all we sliced up some Granny Smith apples in some good bite sized slices.

We got some bamboo skewers; you can also just dip or use a fork as well.

We found some toppings and for fun we put them in muffin wrappers in a muffin tin. You can also put the toppings in little bowls or ramekins as well.

For toppings we decided on chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, ground Graham crackers, crushed pretzels, sprinkles, and crushed Oreos. We also melted some white chocolate and made some caramel sauce and went to town!