Maple Walnut Chocolate Cake and Marshmallow Creatures

This cake is gone, long, long gone. I meant to post the pictures and recipe that long, long ago...but, there are a lot of things that I mean to do, and some days life gets in the way. Anyhow, this cake rocked my world. Seriously.

This was a great chocolate cake for two recipe from eHow. It made a really moist, chocolaty 8X8" cake that lasted...2 days. To be honest, it wasn't as good the next day, I mean, it wasn't BAD. It had dried out a little, but I still thought it was better fresh. I topped it with a quick maple frosting and sprinkled it with toasted walnuts. YUM! It was sooooo good! (Recipe below)
I have baked a lot lately, aaaaaannnd it looks like none of it gets posted. Mostly because I bake late at night, due to munchies, and it all gets eaten up or given away too quick. I have followed food blogs and drooled over food photography for quite some time now, in fact all I have made sure to do since we moved into a bigger apartment back in September is make sure that I cook a lot. We have had two parties in which we made sure that all the food was homemade and delicious (although I have to make a lot more food a head of time or not drink so much cause I feel like food runs out mid-party) yet, none of it gets posted here! I am too busy eating all of this amazing food! So, once a week or so I'll force myself to stop inhaling whatever weird creation came out of my kitchen and take a damn picture. I have to warn you though, it may lead to strange stuff like this:

My dad brought me Peeps and non-Peep pink marshmallow bunnies two weeks ago! In crazy bright colors! And I made them do all kinds of odd crap in my kitchen, then I ate them. Yes,  I know,  sorry to The Man who pointed out that it was a month after easter and my dad gets all manner of odd stuff from some...strange individuals. So, don't eat them ok? Because you don't know where they came from. Oops. I only ate the Peeps. The bunnies are still in the kitchen cause they were not all hard dried out marshmellow like the peeps. Like what you would expect from month old easter candy. No then bunnies were still really soft pillow like. I was amazed. So mushy. AND they smelled very strongly of artificial vanilla flavoring. Overpoweringly strong.
I just went into the kitchen to feel the bunnies and they are just now approaching Peep firmness. Of a fresh peep, not a stale one. Yes, these were mushier than Peeps when I opened them, weird. They still smell like the artificial Vanilla, but not as much.
More crazy pictures, cause making marshmallow creatures do dirty stuff is fun!

Bunny Buttsex!

Bunny Daisy Chain!

Bunny 69! (this one was a little dark huh?...working on my food photography skills along with everything else...)

♥ Chocolate Maple Walnut Cake for Two ♥ :
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 egg
1/4 cup butter, melted


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Assemble ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup hot water, 1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 beaten egg, 1/4 cup melted butter. Stir until thoroughly mixed.
Combine all ingredients, mixing well after each addition. Do not beat, just stir until thoroughly mixed.
Pour into a greased square 8" baking pan. Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes or until cake tests done with a toothpick inserted in the middle.
Cool completely on a wire rack. Put 1/2 cup or so of confectioner's sugar into a small wire strainer, and dust over the top of the cake,cut into squares and serve.
Frosting: 


1/2 Stick salted sweet cream butter
1/2 Box Powdered Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
1 Teaspoon Pure Maple Sirup
1 Cup Toasted Walnuts


Beat all together till fluffy. Spread on cake, sprinkle with Toasted Walnuts. 


Cake: eHow Frosting: My own concoction.