I'm not exactly sure what brought it on but I found myself thinking about making a chocolate yogurt cake the other day. I think it was partly from eating yogurt that had me thinking about baking with it. I was thinking along the lines of a loaf cake because I pictured these great lemon and orange yogurt loaves and figured I'd love to try a chocolate one. Also, making the last chiffon cake had me thinking about great base recipes and making different versions from it.
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| Quick and easy to prepare (6-inch) chocolate chip yogurt cake |
But when I looked up recipes ideas, fudgy chocolate chip yogurt cake from Mel's Kitchen Cafe popped up. I discovered this site pretty recently but I've become a big fan after trying a few recipes and getting some great dinners out of it. So I saw this easy chocolate chip cake and couldn't resist giving it a try.
It's so quick and easy to make that I decided at the last minute, right before I started cooking dinner, to whip it up for dessert. I scaled the recipe down to make a little 6-inch cake for the three of us. All you have to do is mix dry ingredients in one bowl and whisk together some sugar, eggs, yogurt and vanilla in another (there's no oil or butter in this recipe). The two come together and you add a generous amount of chocolate chips.
The chips are actually supposed to sink mostly to the bottom of the cake to make a fudgy layer at the base that's like a hot fudge sauce. Ironically, my chocolate chips didn't really sink that way! No worries because as long as you pull your cake out of the oven early enough, the cake will be nice and fudgy. It's melty and chocolaty, and it tastes a bit like molten chocolate cake, which is one of the best things on earth, in my opinion! I popped this cake in the oven as we sat down to dinner. It took no more than 27 minutes for mine to bake to this state but check on it early. It's very important to err on the side of slightly under-baking so that the cake is soft and gooey in the center. It will taste more chocolaty that way. Eating it warm is highly recommended.
Eating this warm cake with some ice cream is also highly recommended. Is there anything better than a nice dinner, followed by warm chocolate cake served with ice cream? It brings a family together, I tell you!
There is this wonderful suggestion of topping this cake with some chopped toasted almonds or toffee bits for a little crunch. I would have loved a little crunchy contrast but the fellas in my family prefer otherwise. So I just sprinkled my slice with a little chopped pistachios.
This was a very nice quick & easy impromptu dessert that my family and I really enjoyed together.
