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  • 2 Ingredient Cake Recipe – GF Video

    2 Ingredient Cake Recipe – GF Video

    Bake a simple cake with our 2 ingredient cake recipe. Yes, it works. Super simple cake recipe, just watch our video and follow along.

    This cake recipe succeeds because ice cream has the same ingredient as most cakes:

    • Eggs
    • Dairy – in this case cream and milk
    • Vanilla or some sort of flavoring


    The addition of self rising flour makes for a true 2 ingredient cake. I have found if you want to get a high rise, use a narrow loaf pan. And in true “use what you got”™ GardenFork style, we had some dried cranberries on hand, so we tossed those in. You could add in walnuts or raisinss, dates, etc.

    The choice of what kind of ice cream opens up all sorts of possiblities. Want to make pistachio cake? Buy pistachio ice cream. I think a chocolate chip mint ice cream cake sounds great. That and   cup of coffee makes dessert easy. I also like this style of simple cake recipe because it gets kids interested in cooking. I’m thinking they will be curious about how ice cream can become cake.

    I like to have ice cream along with most quick cakes, and our 2 ingredient cake work well with additional ice cream in its original form alongside the cake. Now i’m wondering if someone makes banana ice cream, and whether it would work , and how it would taste. With the endless flavors of ice cream available, you will busy with the cake recipe.

    If you like easy cakes, consider trying out our 5 minute microwave cake, decadent and done in 5 min. nice.

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    If you don’t have self rising flour, you can make some. For each cup of self rising flour needed, add 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and a pinch of salt to one cup of all purpose flour

    2 Ingredient Cake Recipe
    Ingredients
    • 1 pint high quality ice cream, vanilla to start
    • 1 1/2 cups self rising flour
    • handful nuts, dried fruits, whatever you got
    Cooking Directions
    1. Preheat your oven to 350 F
    2. Oil and flour a 4 x 8 cake pan or similar loaf pan
    3. Put the ice cream on counter to melt.
    4. When its kinda thick but liquid-like, pour the ice cream into a bowl.
    5. Add the flour and mix, but don\’t over mix.
    6. Pour into cake pan
    7. Bake for 45 min, until knife comes out clean.

  • Triple Chocolate Cake Recipe – GF Video

    Take our chocolate cake recipe, add chocolate chips and chocolate icing, and make a triple chocolate cake! Based on comments viewers made to our original simple chocolate cake video, we added a few things to amp up the cake, and it tastes amazing.

    I love this cake for its simplicity. But then, I love making everything as simple as possible, life is complicated enough as it is. So with a few additions, you can amp up the decadence of the chocolate cake and it still takes almost no time to make.

     

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    Adding chocolate chips on top of the batter makes this decadent.

     

    Snooki said in her comment that her family makes a similar chocolate cake recipe and adds chocolate chips across the top of the batter, so we did that. Simple and done. You could mix the chips into the batter, but this cake doesn’t need it. I like how the chocolate chip layer is on the top. If you wanted to switch it up a little, you could use white chocolate chips, or peanut butter chips. Either one would be a great addition.

    Cathy suggested the chocolate icing or glaze. ( Not sure if its called icing or a glaze, let me know your thoughts below ) Take a half stick of butter, melt it, add in cocoa and powdered sugar and spread across the top of the cake. You could do this just before serving, but I like to do it beforehand and let the glaze settle into the cake a bit. I like the word unctuous, and it fits here really well. Now while writing this i want some cake, and its not even lunchtime yet.

    Do you guys make a cake like this? Let me know in the comments below, we can make a third and fourth version of this going forward

    Check out our original simple chocolate cake recipe video here.

    Triple Chocolate Cake Recipe – GardenFork.TV
    Ingredients
    • 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
    • 1 cup sugar
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 3 tablespoons cocoa
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 3/4 cup veg oil
    • 3/4 cup water
    • 1 tablespoon vinegar
    • 1 cup chocolate chips
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    Cooking Directions
    1. This is based on our simple chocolate cake recipe, amped up with more chocolate
    2. Heat Oven to 350F
    3. Put all the dry ingredients in an 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 pan.
    4. Mix together well, using a whisk or fork if you like
    5. Make a well or hole in the middle of the dry ingredients
    6. Add the wet ingredients in to the well.
    7. Mix the wet into the dry until it looks like chocolate cake batter
    8. Smooth the top of the batter, and scatter across the top the chocolate chips
    9. Bake on the middle rack of the oven. Check at 25 minutes, you want it moist, not dry.
    10. In our oven, this bakes in 30 minutes, a convection oven may be faster.
    11. Mix up the chocolate icing recipe, pour across the cake, and let it cool.

    Simple Chocolate Icing
    Ingredients
    • 1/2 stick – 4 ozs butter
    • 2 teaspoons cocoa
    • 1/4 cup milk
    • 1 cup powdered sugar
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    Cooking Directions
    1. This icing was suggested by one of our viewers, and its great on chocolate cake
    2. Melt the butter in a small saucepan.
    3. Turn off heat and add milk.
    4. Stir in cocoa
    5. Add in powedered sugar
    6. Mix well and then spread over the cake.
    7. Smooth it out if you want and allow cake to cool.