Schokoladenkuchen! And so much easier to make than to say!

My daughter wanted to be in the photo WITH the cake :)

A wonderful friend of mine regularly sends me great recipes via email and to my loss, I don't try many of them. But this one looked really easy and I thought hey, even if it's no good the kids will enjoy it. Lucky us, it turned out quite tasty! And we ALL had a blast making it! From 2 to 33 there was joy in the kitchen! It's called Instant Chocolate Cake on the Food Network and it takes about 5 minutes to make! I will say, it makes more than you'd think. In the future I would make 1 cake and we could all split it (2-3 servings.) Basically you mix up the batter in a mug and then nuke it for 2 minutes! Voila! Cake! You could easily add a little sauce; we added some Fleur de Sel Caramel sauce from Trader Joe's and holy smacks- tasty! Will it replaced the baked cake? No. But with kids, it is a great dessert! Here's some pictures of ours:

This is how it looked out of the microwave.

Once inverted (did I mention it's really freakin' hot out of the microwave? Beware steam burns!) it looked like this:

One had been sampled already ;)

And last but certainly not least, all doctored up and ready to go!

The hubby opted for powdered sugar but me of course, I went for the whipped cream!