Swedish Chocolate Cake (revisited) - 5 ingredients, 40 minutes (+ Video)

Ever since I posted this cake about a year ago, I've been feeling guilty about it. This poor cake had no justice, my lack-luster photo and the fact it was such an old post meant that it sat in the corner of my blog, basically alone. No body knew how AMAZING it is! It's easy, simple and super fast to make. It's fancy enough to serve as dessert, and simple enough to throw together in under an hour.

Check out the video below (don't worry, there's no awkward talking involved, just a rogue blurry bit of me dancing, plus you get to listen to music AND see this molten-fudge chocolate cake getting sliced!!)

Direct Link {Swedish Chocolate Cake from Izy Hossack on Vimeo.}
or a direct link {on youtube, if you prefer}

This cake is also known as Kladdkaka, which literally means Sticky Cake.

Now, I get it..sticky...uh...yeah okay I guess so, but I would say more like 'super delicious, gooey, molten chocolate brownie' cake.

And it really is how I described it all that time ago - a perfect cross between a molten chocolate cake and a fudge brownie; the edges get chewy, the top is crisp, and the centre is pure molten chocolate goo.

Now seriously, you have like ten minutes right? Okay, so actually, acutally move your body into the kitchen. Mix up this cake batter and shove it into the oven.


Then there's around 30 minutes to wait for the cake. Go paint your nails, re-watch the tutorial video above, or maybe catch up on half an episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Yeah. No more than half the episode. No, stop...stop. Don't get caught up looking at McSteamy, noo you'll over bake the cake!

This cake does not want to be over baked.
It needs to be gooey in the middle, and crispy on top.
It needs to be eaten preferably, while watching the rest of that Grey's Anatomy episode, with a cup of tea.

Make a reference to the above photo. See, delicious, thin crispy top. Molten centre.

ALSO, make sure you don't skip or skimp on the powdered sugar; if you do, as my friend Sarah put it, "It will be a fail."

(p.s. did you notice that in the first photo, the black 'moustache things' are actually vanilla beans? Yeah, I forget that I'm not too skilled at photoshop, and a bit over-ambitious quite often)

Swedish Chocolate Cake

10 tbsp (5oz / 135g) salted butter
1/2 cup (2 oz / 55g ) cocoa powder
1 3/4 cup (12.5 oz / 350g) sugar  + 2 tsp vanilla sugar*
1 cup (4.6 oz / 130g) flour
3 eggs

Preheat you oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C), butter and flour a 6" to 8" cake pan, it needs to be quite deep.
In a medium sauce pan, melt the butter. Stir in the rest of the ingredients. Pour into the grease cake pan, and bake for 30-45 minutes (should be 30-35 minutes for an 8" pan, 35-40 for a 7" pan or 40-45 for a 6" pan).

Let the cake cool in it's pan, then run a dull knife around the inside edge of the pan to loosen the cake. Turn the cake out onto a wire rack**. Dust with powdered sugar. Serve warm.


*you can substitute the 2 tsp of vanilla sugar for 2 tsp of vanilla extract
**I like do do this once the cake is completly cool and so is less fragile, then I can turn it out upside-down, straight into my hand, then place it right side up back on the wire rack