It's time to get back to dessert! Valentine's Day is a few days away and we should have more chocolate for the occasion. You can't go wrong with a classic so let's have chocolate cake! I put my mini bundt cake pan to use and made a couple of mini chocolate bundt cakes to share with my Valentines (that would be my husband and our rapidly-growing 9 year old). We love simple, straight-up chocolate cake - it never gets old, it just has to be good.
These cakes themselves don't just look chocolaty, they also taste that way. Because of that, you don't necessarily need a glaze (a pretty dusting of confectioners' sugar would do) but since it's for Valentine's Day after all, I topped the cakes with chocolate ganache. Some of that ganache pooled into the hollow of the cakes and I told my son that was the "tunnel of love". I know...I'm so corny!
Because of the small scale and since I don't have a hand-held mixer, I made this recipe the old-fashioned way with my trusty wooden spoon and spatula. I enjoy being able to do that once in a while. The effort it takes to make this recipe - from blooming the chocolate in a bit of boiling water to carefully transferring the batter into your two mini bundt molds - are well worth it since you end up with two adorable little chocolate cakes that are just how they should be - chocolaty. It has the kind of tight, dense crumb I expect when I think bundt cakes; it's moist and the icing on top is just that.
