let them eat cake!

i passed by a bar on my way home and there was a guy sitting buy the window drinking a porter and i literally drooled.  i miss porter.  all those times i was bein' mean to my guts, i wish i would have taken better advantage of porter.  le sigh.  anyway, here's a recipe for chocolate cake that i totally improvised.  it turned out pretty good actually.  cook time + prep time ~1hr, yields 12 servings, 3.92 carbs per serving

ingredients:

1 cup coconut flour
1 cup hazelnut flour
1 cup almond flour
1 cup granulated splenda
1 tsp baking powder
5 eggs
0.5 cup cocoa powder
2 tbsp vanilla syrup
0.5 cup butter (i used clarified, as you can see) - melted
1 cup diet soda
1 box sugar free butterscotch pudding
2 cup cold heavy cream

• preheat oven to 350F
• when i made this cake on sunday, i hadn't gotten my cuisinart mixer yet.  i had to do everything by hand.  it was horrible.  i'm glad i'll never have to do that again.  anyway, mix flours, splenda, baking powder and cocoa powder.  add eggs, vanilla syrup and melted butter.  at this point i was going to add water to moisten the dough but i read somewhere someone using soda instead of water in some cake, so i added diet root beer, see

• yah so mix it all real well, and put it in a 9inch well greased baking pan.  
• bake for ~20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.  don't over cook tho. cool. (the cake, cool the cake)
• i wanted to make like a carmel topping for the cake but i couldn't figure out how to make that with the ingredients in my fridge, so i thought i'd do something with this butterscotch pudding i sort of bought on whim.  it said on the box that it had to be mixed with cold milk, so i used cold cream, then i thought i'd heat it with some butter and make something, i don't know.  but as i started whipping the pudding with the cream it got super thick, like a buttercream icing and i was like, "woah, this is super fracking awesome."  and so i iced the cake with it and it was delicious.

it was kinda dense, like brownies.  but nom.  enjoy!