A Christmas Bake...in February....:)

I know that Christmas has well and truly finished now but..... I was in Tesco just after Christmas and they had boxes of their Chocolate Brownie Christmas Pudding Kit on special offer and I couldn't resist. I had planned to make it with the children over the holidays but they were both really poorly (as I think the whole of Essex was! ) so we didn't get around to making it until a couple of weeks ago.

Aside from being on special offer :) what appealed was that it was a microwave cake! I've never cooked a cake in the microwave before and I didn't have high expectations but it looked like fun and it seemed super easy so I thought I would give it a go. We had a friend coming over for lunch with her children the next day so I figured, so long as it was edible it would get eaten between the six of us!

The recipe called for an egg and butter if my memory serves me correctly. Either way, the additional ingredients certainly weren't anything complex. We mixed it all together, popped it in a bowl, popped the bowl in the microwave and 2 minutes later we had a chocolate cake!!

I needed to "make sure the bottom of the cake was flat so that it would sit squarely on the plate" and so as not to waste the bits cut off, did a quick taste test and oh my, it was good! The effort to taste ratio was immense!!! We let it cool and took to the icing. Now, I know my weaknesses and I have never been great at "drizzling" the icing. I think I'm too impatient and maybe I don't make the icing thick enough but for whatever reason, however hard I try, I can't get the icing to just stop at the right moment like they do in the pictures!!! So we didn't have so much of a drizzle but more of a waterfall of icing but hey, the kids thought it was great fun!

We threw on the holly sprinkles and it didn't look too bad! :)

I did have a chuckle as I unveiled it to my friend but, as true friends do, she said it looked wonderful!! Ha ha! Anyway, kids don't lie and there was very little left after we had all tucked in so I think the taste test was passed!!!

All in all, it was a really easy, really fun and really yummy treat! :)

Tesco certainly do have a great selection of gluten free foods and what I have come to find is that loads of their own brand "regular" items are gluten free when in other supermarkets they aren't. Think that could be the making of another blog!!!

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