So, with my new kitchen beckoning I have decided to make ALL THOSE RECIPES on Pinterest that I’ve always wanted to make but never had the time or dishes to really invest.
With that being said, I’m going to take some time to review these recipes as I make them – some of them will be wonderful, some of them not so much (shockingly quite a few of them not so much). I’ll post photos if I remember to take them. But most of all, I will be honest as I can and call bullshit when I need to (on myself even, if that is the case)
First up: Chocolate Cobbler!
OMG, don’t even get to the end of this blog, just skip it and go directly to “South Your Mouth” and just make the damn thing! http://www.southyourmouth.com/2014/09/chocolate-cobbler.html?m=1
OMG OMG OMG OM NOM NOM…Okay, that’s all, see ya next time.
JUST KIDDING!
So, if you are into warm cakes (yes, please) – melty chocolate (yes, please) – slightly crispy tops (yes, please) – and that general warm feeling you get when you make something that is wonderfully old fashioned but has aged like freakin’ Helen Mirrin this is your recipe.
This thing has been in rotation for a while, and even appeared on the Hershey’s Cocoa tins back in the day when they were actual tins and you had to use a spoon to get the round lid off…you know what I’m talkin’ about, don’t lie. Anyway, it is an oldie but one that I hadn’t experience before.
Now, before you are all judgy and stuff…understand that I love cobbler. My mother one said that cobblers would not die while I still existed because I FREAKIN’ LOVE THEM and she’s right. I will likely die making a cobbler, one minute dotting the top of a luscious, fruit filling with slightly sweet dumplings of goodness – the next X_X
That does not mean that I have been exposed to this chocolate cobbler – because I haven’t. And that is a damn shame, since my love of cobbler is only rivaled by Chocolate Lava Cake. No joke, we went on a Carnival Cruise and I got one EVERY NIGHT and sometimes one “to go”. Did you know that was a thing? It is, you can get a “to go” plate of anything in the dining room to go back to your stateroom. #NoShameItWasLavaCake!
So, here I am…looking at two things I love 1) warm chocolate and 2) cobbler and I’m thinking this is going to SUCK!!!!!! Because other things that I love like haven’t worked out well for me. For instance: 1) my wife and 2) winter = BAD or 1) Peanut Butter and 2) Gardening = messy
But then I made it…you start by creating a cake base. It is thick and you end up smearing it around the bottom of the pan you are going to cook in. No, guys, like THICK – like think of a brownie mixture and now take out like a cup of liquid. It was almost like working with cold butter.
Color me worried.
Then you take cocoa and sugar and just dump it on top of the cake base. Spread it to the sides, or not, cobbler don’t care.
Then dump boiling water on top of it.
DON’T STIR!!!!
I expected a few things out of this: the top would be soggy, the bottom liquid fudge would be more watery hot chocolate than fudge, and finally the line between the two would be some unholy flour gummy bear from hell.
NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED!!! I know, right?
HOW?
Well, I think the sugar mix on top of the cake doesn’t dissolve completely (because of the not stirring thing) and so when the cake rises up through it there is a thin layer of sugar that is left to crystalize on top as it cooks. And the fudge on bottom is actually part of the liquid chocolate on top, BUT ALSO a little bit of the super stiff cake batter that has decided being melty ain’t all bad…which means that as you go up the layers you’ve got a natural transition from more melty goodness, to less melty, to slightly firm, to fudge brownie like, to crispy sugary top.
It is perfection, but it is no joke.
I could not eat very much of this, and my sweet tooth is LEGEND.
I could only handle a little serving, and I seriously considered setting off my lactose intolerance by getting ice cream just to cut the sweet so I could HAVE MORE.
It is so worthwhile, it is so delicious, it is just as wonderful (and liquid) warm as it is cold! (HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN!!!?!?!? WAS I A GOOD GIRL THIS YEAR? I MUST HAVE BEEN!!!)
So please, go right out and make this…now. Do not delay. Run, don’t walk. NOW, DAMNIT! You can thank me later.
