Flourless chocolate cake

I made this cake last night for our family dinner.  Oh. my. yumminess.  There is only one little piece left that I'm saving for Josh to have tomorrow after he eats lunch.  I altered the recipe a bit by using dairy free margarine in the cake.  For the salted caramel sauce I used margarine and Silk dairy free creamer.  I also used dark baking chocolate for half of what it called for, and I accidentally used 1 cup of brown sugar in the cake instead of the called for 1/4 cup.  Oops.  It worked though, probably because the chocolate was darker than what was called for.  The called for time for baking was 90 minutes, but I had to leave the house with about 10 minutes of baking left, so I turned off the oven and left it in to finish baking while the oven cooled down.  I turned it off at about 1:30 and came back to the house to get it at 5.  I was SO nervous that it would either be burnt or underdone, but it was actually perfect!  Now I just have to figure out if I do that again or try baking it the full 90 minutes.  I will definitely be making this again!

Chocolaty heaven...

I found this super yummy recipe, and decided to make it for a friend's baby shower I was throwing.  My (at the time) four year old helped me, and we'll just say it might be the yummiest dessert I have ever made.  Seriously, everyone was asking for the recipe.  Well, that little four year old just turned five, and when I asked her what she wanted me to make for her family party dessert, this is what she requested.  

Brownie on the bottom followed by a layer of cream cheese, cool whip, and powdered sugar.

 Followed by a layer of chocolate and vanilla pudding mixed together.

 Topped off with a layer of straight cool whip.  Don't let that fool you into thinking it's not as good as real whipped cream.  I'm a fan of making things from scratch, but there are just times when I go for easy, and you can't even tell that you're eating cool whip.

 And to finish it, some chocolate shavings.  The only thing I will do differently next time I make it is add Heath bar bits on top instead of chocolate shavings.  It just needs some crunch to it.

Here is the recipe.  Enjoy!