21st Birthday Cake & Dinner Suggestions

So, here's your "cake"



(a friend of mine actually made this for another friend and it was pretty good, and kind of funny)

I originally received it as this recipe, but have included my modifications below to make it with hot chocolate mix and bite sized awesome.


Chocolate Truffle Cake Supreme
Servings: about 10
Woman's Day Super Special December 1989

Prep Time: About 20 minutes
Baking Time:about 16 18 minutes
Cooling Time: about 1 hour
Chilling Time: about 6 hours or overnight

1 1/2 cups (2/1/2 sticks) butter
1 cup plus 1 T sugar, divided
3/4 cups good quality unsweetened cocoa
1 tablespoon all purpose flour
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs, separated
Topping (optional):
1 cup chilled heavy cream
chocolate curls

Preheat oven to 425.
Grease bottom of 8 inch springform pan.
In medium sized saucepan over low heat, melt butter.
Add l cup sugar and cocoa, stirring until well blended.
Stir in flour and vanilla.
Transfer cooled mixture to mixing bowl of mixer.
In small bowl with mixer at high speed, beat egg whites with remaining l T of sugar until soft
peaks form. Set aside.
With electric mixer at medium speed, add yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Mixture will start to thicken after each addition of yolks.
With rubber spatula, fold whites into chocolate mixture.
Spoon batter into prepared pan.
Bake 16 18 mintues or until edges are firm being careful not to overbake (center will be soft).
Remove to wire rack to cool completely. (Cake will sink slightly in center as it cools). Remove
sides of pan.
Refrigerate at least 6 hours.

To serve:
Let cake stand at room temperature 15 mins. before serving.
Beat heavy cream with electric mixer until peaks form.
Top each serving with cream and finish with chocolate curls.

Last note...this really does only take 20 minutes to make! Don't overbake this either! And, if I make this early in the day, it's great by after dinner. (7 ish) Lastly, freezes well too!



My slightly modified recipe.

1 1/2 cups (2/1/2 sticks) butter
1/4 cup plus 1 T sugar, divided
1 1/2 cups of cocoa powder (I've used 1 cup ghiradelli chocolate and 1/2 cup ghiradelli hazelnut in the past)
1 tablespoon all purpose flour (haven't tried it yet - but I bet you can replace this with hazelnut flour)
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs, separated

Preheat oven to 425.
Spray or grease mini muffin pans or cute little petite four pan
In medium sized saucepan over low heat, melt butter.
Add l/4 cup sugar and cocoa, stirring until well blended.
Stir in flour and vanilla.
Transfer cooled mixture to mixing bowl of mixer.
In small bowl with mixer at high speed, beat egg whites with remaining l T of sugar until soft
peaks form. Set aside.
With electric mixer at medium speed, add yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Mixture will start to thicken after each addition of yolks.
With rubber spatula, fold whites into chocolate mixture.

Get it into your mini muffin/regular muffin pan. (Now I have a plastic ketchup dispenser that I cut off the tip and fill with my batter and then I can squeeze the perfect amount more easily. Some people put batter in pastry tubes or cut off the corners of ziploc bags. Or they just spoon it. Do whatever works for you).

Bake mini muffin sizes 4-5 minutes, and regular muffin sizes 5-6 minutes. The edges will be firm but the center kinda liquidy. It will make you nervous. Or it made me nervous. Once it cooled, the centers will all dip a little bit. Refrigerate in the pan... unless you have skills and can take them all out on your own. To me, it was easier to refrigerate in the pan. Then, after at least 4 hours... you can pop a cake out and test. It should taste like a cross between a flourless chocolate cake and a lava cake. Just one mini muffin-sized cake or maybe two should meet any chocolate cravings. Because it is RICH.

So, here's your "cake"



(a friend of mine actually made this for another friend and it was pretty good, and kind of funny)

Loving this idea!

This is not a cake, but GF black bean brownies that are very cake like. They are easy to make and were quite delicious, even my DH and 4 children enjoyed them quite a bit and had no idea the ingredients until I told them. They do have sugar and chocolate chips ( I suppose you could leave the chips out), but one brownie is only 150 calories.

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2014/02/amazing-flour-less-brownies.html

So, here's your "cake"



(a friend of mine actually made this for another friend and it was pretty good, and kind of funny)

Loving this idea!

This is an abomination

If there were ever a day to "splurge"... a 21st birthday might be that day! Good Luck!

I'm just sad but if that's what you want to do.......
My daughter (who is also on MFP) will be 21 tomorrow. We are definitely splurging on whatever looks good! We will be at Disneyland for 3 days. Yeah, probably strange for most people BUT there will be lots of alcohol. lol....

i am sad too after seeing this.

just eat some cake!!

a delicious cake that you love!