Everybody needs a good snack cake and if that snack cake happens to be chocolate, then all the better.  I have several snack cakes that I go to regularly.  I saw this one though and thought that I had to give it a whirl.


Snack Cake... I love calling it that.  Somehow, calling it a 'Snack' cake takes some of the dessert importance out of it.  It doesn't have to live up to some kind of dessert ideal.  It doesn't feel like as big a deal and well, if I'm just having it as a snack then I'm sure that the calorie count must be lower too... right???  Haha.  Call it whatever you want, this is good cake.
We've been needing something chocolate in the house with the apple cake, the pear/pecan cake... not a chocolate in sight.  This cake was super easy and tasted just as good the next day.  Nice and moist but if you are looking for a brownie recipe then this is not for you.  This is cake all the way baby.  It totally lifted my spirits on my first day back to work after the long weekend.  Hear this... first day back, biking to work, I find myself braking too hard too fast and next thing I know my bike is going over my head and I'm kissing the asphalt... Great way to start the week.  So stupid... and sore!
I managed to bike myself back home from work and I sat my sore ass down to a nice little piece of Chocolate Fudge Snack Cake....


it felt like more than a snack and it was just what I needed.


Chocolate Fudge Cake
BBC Good Food Magazine

200g chocolate (I used 60% stuff but it would probably be better with Milk Chocolate)
200g unsalted butter
200g light brown sugar (I used half dark brown and half granulated)
100ml sour cream
2 lg eggs
200g self-raising flour
5 tbsp cocoa powder




Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Line a square 8inch baking pan with parchment or grease and flour.
In a bowl combine chocolate, butter and sugar with 100ml hot water and let it all melt together.
Once melted, add in the sour cream and the eggs and mix well.


In a separate bowl, combine the flour and cocoa powder.  Mix into the chocolate mixture.  Mix well and pour the batter into the pan.


Bake for 50 min (?) but I would check it around 40 - mine was ready.
Cool for about 20 min. in the pan and turn out to cool on a rack.
Ice once completely cooled.

Ganache:
Melt the chocolate and cream together over low heat.  Add in the corn syrup and mix well.  Add the icing sugar if necessary.  Cool for at least one hour (maybe in the fridge if you need to hurry).  Pour over cake once the cake has cooled completely.


Add Sprinkles!!!