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Chocolate Panini The 5 Minute Chocolate Cake
Rate your Summer Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Cake without the Oven
Are you craving chocolate cake, but you don't want to heat the house up with your oven? Chocolate Panini can save your summer day! These sweet cake treats bake in 5 minutes in the electric panini maker. They taste like mini chocolate cakes! Nice to have a fast summer treat to share. Add a side of vanilla icecream. These would be really easy to include in a picnic basket.
You can add filling. Add a light chocolate mousse. Just drop a few spoons in the center and cover with more chocolate batter. I tried chocolate pudding; which is why I recommend a mousse. Jello has a mousse like pudding in the dairy section, so pick one up for this recipe.
Every other chocolate panini recipe is created with bread. This one has cake batter instead.
Frost the cake with regular store bought icing of your choice. If you want to go a little lighter, drizzle icing or sprinkle with powdered sugar. You can let it cool a bit like you do any other cake and then frost it when it is cool.
I use Somersweet as my sugar substitute. It is a bakeable sugar and equal in measurement to sugar. You can use Splenda cooking sugar as a substitute or just use regular sugar. Splenda also has Splenda brown sugar; which you can supplement for the regular brown sugar. Just pack the brown sugar lightly rather than firm for this recipe.
I used a White Westinghouse electric panini maker with 4 triangles that allows for pourable batters. Make sure you get those triangles pretty full so it will cook both sides of the cake at the same time and evenly.
A small mixing bowl and a rubber spatula is all you need to mix the ingredients. You can use an electric mixer if you prefer.
Preparing and Cooking The Cakes
Cook Time
Ingredients for chocolate batter
- 1 Cup Swans Down Cake Flour
- 3 Tablespoons Ghiradelli Unsweetened Cocoa, Powder
- 1/2 Cup lightly packed brown sugar, You can substitute Splenda brown sugar
- 1/4 Cup Somersweet or Splenda or Sugar, Somersweet or Splenda sugars are substitutes or use regular sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 Cup Milk
- 1 Egg
- 2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
How to make the Chocolate cakes
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a small mixing bowl with a rubber spatula. Cake Flour, cocoa, sugars, baking soda and salt.
- Add liquids. Egg, vanilla and milk.
- Mix all together with the spatula till well mixed and looks like cake batter.
- Heat the panini maker (5-10 minutes while mixing the batter).
- Prepare any filling you plan to use or cook without the filling. I recommend using Mousse or pudding. Again, storebought pudding cups work just fine.
- Pour the chocolate batter into the heated panini maker. If you are adding the filling, don't fill it. Just add a layer, spoon drop the filling and pour more batter over the top to cover.
- Close the panini maker and cook 5 minutes.
- Lift the cakes out with a clean spatula. Let cool on a plate. Frost with any store bought frosting flavor of choice. Serve.
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Comments
Wow, this sounds amazing and so easy to make. Will be pining, sharing and voting up. Thanks for giving me a easy, easy recipe to try for my kids!!
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You are welcome and anything to keep the oven off in the summer time!
So very true about the oven being off. Thank you again :)
Hi Brenda! Welcome to Hubpages, 3 months along......anytime I can have homemade chccolate cake in 5 minutes, it's a good thing! Voted up and awesome!
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They are pretty good. I always kid test things like that too. My kids don't seem to mind being testers. Thank you!
Chocolate cake in 5 minutes? What more could I ask for?
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That's what I thought! I was craving some chocolate when I made the recipe, but with 100 degree nonstop days, the oven was not an option.
Wow! It sounds yummy and easy to make. I´ll try this sometime. Thanks for sharing and for following me.
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It is easy, would be worth trying a box recipe in it too and see how it turns out.
This sounds so good.. my mouth is watering. Thank you for sharing :)
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Good to hear, thank you!
...this is just too original - yummy! Wow, would have never guessed.... Great article.
John
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Thank you John. I am thinking about trying all kinds of things in that panini maker. It is a fun little piece of kitchen equipment to use.
This is great for dieters...you have to make more if you want more...lol.
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Wow! That is a great point too.
Oh, this sounds so tempting. And easy makes it more so. Thanks for sharing that recipe, it's a keeper.
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Thank you, it is wonderful and even better with reduced sugar that tastes really good at the same time.
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