How To Make Chocolate Cake Shake

I don't do well in the heat.

Exterior, the sunday beats down on my head like a relentless drummer.  Inside, my apartment feels like a sauna unless I hide out in my bedroom, the only source of cool air timidly wafting from my 1970's wall-unit of measurement air conditioner.   My dog and I both prevarication in our respective cool spots, one-half-awake, half-dreaming of frozen pumpkin (her) and iced water (me).  We can barely bring ourselves to do anything at all.

Alas, I crave chocolate cake.  And ice cream.  And in detail, I can't terminate thinking about a chocolate block shake that I sampled (if we're beingness honest, guzzled) at legendary Portillo's on my trip to Chicago.

The Inspiration: Portillo's Chocolate Cake Shake

But while Portillo's shake inspired me, I wanted my version to be more…chocolaty.  Information technology would accept to be easily fabricated at dwelling house, but not out of a boxed mix.  And if at all possible, I wanted to avoid heating upwards my furnace of an apartment any more with long baking times.

Suddenly, I realized what would be perfect – a chocolate mug cake, cooked in the microwave.  Information technology has all the qualities I didn't even know I wanted – (1) single-serving (and then I don't need to utilise actress resources to make an entire cake, and I avoid the temptation of having a huge block lying around the house), (two) fast-cooking (less than 5 minutes in the microwave!), and (3) easily made with whatever ingredients I have on hand (vegan and gluten-free versions are and so easy and every bit succulent!).

Chocolate Mug Cake, Straight from the Microwave

Now that I had a block, I needed an icing as well.  My perfect icing is nighttime, thick, and not-too-sweet, and the recipe I've developed definitely fits the neb.

Then I got a crazy thought – could I brand the ICING in the microwave likewise?  After testing the recipe, my answer – an unqualified, absolute Yep!

Dark and Decadent Chocolate Icing, Straight from the Microwave

And then, with 10 minutes, a tablespoon, and a microwave, you could brand an iced fudgy chocolate cake and mix it into a milk shake, perfect for those hot-weather doldrums.  I'm sure you wouldn't even suspension a sweat.  It'southward so piece of cake that you lot could make it in a college dorm room with little more than a mini-refrigerator and a microwave.

Chocolate Cake, in Pieces

It's so easy and decadent that I've heard that, well…fifty-fifty hungry stoners might capeesh the recipe!  (A "wake and broil chocolate cake milk shake," I guess.)

Chocolate Block Shake

Chocolate Cake Shake

Note: If you lot don't desire to have the extra step of making a shake, yous can just eat the iced cake, soaked with milk until falling-apart soft (call back: tres leches cake) and topped with the vanilla ice cream.  This is fantastically delicious and is reminiscent of a chocolate fudge brownie sundae.  (Just better, I think, because y'all don't have to fence with hard chunks of credibility.)

Or, if you're extra lazy…you can merely eat the icing past itself.  And if yous decide to become that route, yous're my kind of person.

No-Bake Chocolate Cake Milkshake

A perfectly decadent hot-weather dessert.

For the Cake

• three Tbsp. chocolate chips
• 3 Tbsp. canola oil or any other flavorless oil
• 2 and one/two Tbsp. sugar
• 2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
• 3 Tbsp. cocoa pulverisation
• Compression common salt
• 3 Tbsp. milk
• two Tbsp. browbeaten/whisked egg

For the Icing

• iii Tbsp. sugar
• four Tbsp. cocoa pulverization
• 1 Tbsp. milk
• 1 Tbsp. oil
• Pinch salt

For the Cake Milk shake

• Cake from the cake recipe
• Icing from the icing recipe
• 1/2 cup 8 Tbsp. milk
• one/2 loving cup to 1 cup 8 to 16 Tbsp. vanilla ice cream
• Sprinkles

For the Cake

• In tall microwave-safe mug, place chocolate chips and oil. Microwave in 20-second increments, stirring each time, until chocolate chips are melted and incorporated into the oil.

• Add carbohydrate, flour, cocoa powder, and table salt to the chocolate chip mixture in the mug and mix well. Add milk to the mixture and mix well. Add egg to the mixture and mix well.

• Microwave mixture in mug for three minutes in a g-watt microwave. (This will likely take about iv minutes in a 700-watt microwave – I have simply tested the recipe in a m-watt microwave, so you will likely have to endeavor information technology out and see if 4 minutes works for you if you are using a 700-watt microwave.)

• Take the mug out of the microwave. (Don't burn down yourself!) Rejoice at your beautiful cake!

For the Icing

• Mix all ingredients together in microwave-prophylactic cup or basin. Microwave in xx-2d increments, stirring each time, until thickened to desired consistency. Set aside to cool for a couple of minutes.

For the Cake Shake

• Dump cake into bowl and tear apart roughly with a fork. Add together 1/2 cup of milk (or nondairy milk, if vegan), mash cake mixture with fork, and place in a freezer to cool speedily. Make icing while cake mixture cools in freezer. Remove block mixture from freezer along with vanilla ice foam. Add desired amount of vanilla ice cream to cake mixture (I usually use about 1/two cup to 1 cup ice cream). Drizzle in icing as desired (I commonly add about 1/2 the batch of icing) and mix well with fork. (I like my block shake a little mesomorphic, and I like to eat it with a spoon!) Pour into cups or glasses, add a straw and a little spoon, and top with sprinkles as needed to make yous happy.

• Alternatively, top block-milk mixture with vanilla ice foam and sprinkles, and consume like a deconstructed chocolate cake shake dessert. I ordinarily adopt this option, considering I honey cake!

VEGAN VERSION

• (For the Block:) In place of the egg, apply 1 tablespoon ground flax seed dissolved in 2.v Tbsp. water that you lot have let sit for two minutes to thicken. In place of the milk, apply water or non-dairy milk. If you want the cake to rise a flake, add a pinch of baking powder. Add xv seconds or and then to the cooking time to account for the extra moisture. The resulting cake volition exist softer than a block made with a normal egg.

• (For the Icing:) Substitute water for the milk. One time you lot taste how rich and chocolaty this icing is, you will Not believe it is vegan!

• (For the Block Shake:) Substitute your choice of not-dairy milk and not-dairy ice cream for the milk and water ice cream.

GLUTEN-Costless VERSION

• (For the Cake:) Substitute an equal amount of gluten-gratuitous flour for the all-purpose flour. I like to brand the gluten-complimentary adaptation with a vegan egg substitute of 1 Tbsp. ground flax mixed with 2.five Tbsp. water. Add a pinch of baking pulverization, if desired, to produce a fluffier cake. Add together 15 seconds or so to the cooking time to account for the extra wet. These adaptations make a very soft, tender cake that stays soft even afterward information technology cools, which is nice!

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