Cooking experiment: Caramel topped Chocolate Cake

Sometimes I just want to throw random ingredients around, and see what it becomes.

Sometimes I´m lucky with the outcome, a lot of times I´m not.

Anyway, last week I found a can of sweetened condensed milk and two bars of really cheap chocolate.
I was extremely bored, and since I try not to eat when I´m bored, I decided I should make food instead.
First I wanted to make a kind of chocolate brookies, but I just had to use the condensed milk.
So in the end, it became this slightly gooey chocolate caramel cake

The golden brown sticky caramel layer on the cake..

What you need:
-300 gr unsalted Butter


-250 gr sugar


-4 eggs (2 eggs if you use vegabin, which is made of locust bean gum)


-(2 ´spoons´ of Vegabin if you use 2 eggs)


-400 grams Flour


-1 teaspoon baking powder


-1 'Splash' of milk


-200 gr dark chocolate, melted


-1 can of sweetened condensed milk 


How to make it:


-Preheat the oven at 200 degrees Celsius (390 Fahrenheit)

-Mix the butter, sugar, eggs + vegabin together.

-Sieve the flour and the baking powder, and mix it with the rest of the mixture.
  Then you add the molten chocolate and mix it until the batter is 'fluffy'. When the batter is too thick, add some milk

-Put the condensed milk in a small saucepan and heat it up. Stir once in a while!

-In the meantime, put the batter in a cake tin.

-When the condensed milk starts to thicken up, remove it from the heat. and let it cool for about 5 minutes. Keep stirring :-)

-Cover the cake batter with the thickened condensed milk and put it in the oven for about 40 minutes.
Every oven is different, so keep watching the cake! Just make sure the cake is dry and the toffee layer isn´t burnt.

As you might see, my cake has been in the oven for a bit too long... The edges of the caramel layer started to get burnt :-(

 The gooey cake matches perfectly with the sticky caramel.

I have this really strange eating habit...

When I'm going to eat something really tasty, I just have to eat it with with a plastic spoon from a plastic cup. I don't know why, but that makes the whole eating experience so much better

Transformation complete....

Finally got them!

I´ve been wanting these ´hippie´ trousers for so long. Though my sister laughed at me really hard when I told her that I ordered these. I do admit that I've become a bit of a hippie since I'm going to circus festivals. About 75% of the people at those festivals wear these pants (in combination with dreadlocks), and those pants just look like they're really comfortable, so I had to try them!
One step further to being a circus hippie :-)


I bought them on Ebay for 16.35 euros (20.99 dollars), which is quite cheap if you compare it to dutch stores. You easily pay twice as much for such trousers. Of course it's even cheaper yo make your own, but that's going to be my next DIY project ;-)

 How awesome is the package?! It's sent in a cotton bag with old school stamps on it with indian symbols on it. I like it so much more to receive a package like this, than a regular carton box.

 The trousers've been sent directly from India. It's a cool idea that this package has been travelling through all kind of different countries. I always imagine how it looks like over there when I got those foreign packages.

 I really like the fabric. It's not too striking for a colorphobe for me, and my favourite colors, blue and grey, are in it.

As you can see, the trousers are a bit too short

Neverending story...

Really charming pose