I’m not a particularly snoopy wife. for the most part I trust Mr NQN and the only thing that I’m likely to spring him doing is hiding computer parts and hoarding things as he loves collecting junk mail and computer parts. However, he does like to see what I’ve been up to on occasion. Nothing like going into my email which he is welcome to but seeing what I’ve been looking up on the computer on occasion or even what I’ve been saying on twitter or facebook.
One day he said to me “Mon cheri, your google searches are very strange.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Your history shows that you googled ”If you tasered someone in the balls, would they die?’ and ‘Where can I pilot a jet fighter plane in Sydney?’…”
“Well, haven’t you always wanted to know the answers to those questions?” I asked him.
My searches aren’t always full of strange fantasies or dreams but also the more normal kind. I also search for ultimate recipes. You know the kind where people that they have the ultimate recipe for such and such. After all after ultimate there’s really nothing else.
One item I didn’t have to look for online was the one bowl chocolate cake. I found it in my copy of the latest Donna Hay book called Fast, Fresh and Simple where Donna was kind enough to send me a signed copy! I love one bowl dishes. I have a dishwasher but it’s a full sized one and it takes a while to fill it up so I end up washing most things by hand. And the less time spent washing the better quite frankly.
This is truly a one bowl cake and it is gooey, fudgey and moist inside. One thing though and that is do make sure that you use the best quality chocolate you can find. You could also make it gluten free by substituting the plain flour for a gluten free flour like chestnut flour. The chocolate is certainly the star ingredient here and with a little shake of cocoa it will transform you into a moist chocolate cake bearing domestic goddess. Everyone should have a go to one bowl chocolate cake up their sleeve.
So tell me Dear Reader, what would a glance at your computer’s history turn up?
P.S. Because some people have asked, from the searches it appears that other people on google are asking how many times one can survive a taser to the balls which would lead to suggest that it is indeed possible to survive being tasered in the balls. It also suggests that some people are crazy enough to have this done several times to them in the name of research, hijinks or they have survived really, really bad aim by police/security… 
The Ultimate One-Bowl Chocolate Cake
Recipe from Donna Hay
- 125g/4 ozs butter, chopped
- 375g dark chocolate (best quality), chopped
- 1 cup (175g) brown sugar
- 1/4 cup plain (all purpose) flour
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 cup (120g) almond meal
- 5 eggs
- 1 tablespoon cocoa, for dusting
1. Preheat oven to 160C/320F. Line a 21cm or 22cm round baking tin with parchment. Place the butter and chocolate in a large bowl over a pot of simmering water ensuring that the bottom of the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Or microwave the chocolate and butter in a microwave proof bowl in 60 second 50% power bursts.
2. Once melted, add the sugar, flour, milk and almond meal and mix to combine. Add eggs one at a time and mix well. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking tin and cover with a sheet of foil. Bake for 60 minutes or until the inside is set and not wobbling. Remove the foil and cool in the tin and. Dust with cocoa and serve with cream.
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This cake looks amazing, and your google searches definitely made me LOL
Mmmhhh, just to die for! Now, I’m drooling incontrolably over my keyboard… ;-P
Cheers,
Rosa
Do you think I can use olive oil instead of butter for this?
Gee, even her handwriting is stylish!
Love a one bowl cake, and a curious husband..
Hahah thanks for the laughs again this morning Lorraine, you’re gold! Your husband sounds a lot like my partner with his collections of junk mail and computer parts. This cake looks absolutely fantastic, so gooey and scrumptious! My computer history is unsurprisingly full of food related searches, not something I would imagine my partner being very interested in…
xx
Looks delish!
Although not quite as gourmet– my go-to chocolate cake is made in the tin you cook it in. So few dishes and so easy to make it is a disaster for the waistline.
http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChocolateCake.html
My google search history is a rather boring mish-mash of academic searches (trying to write my thesis) & recipe searches (baking instead of writing).
Thanks so much! Have to try this…it looks so good!
this looks so elegant and divine!!
Oh that looks so good!!! Donna Hay really does have some great recipes! They are always fast and fantastic!
I am so jealous that she sent you a signed copy!
I have been tracing a family tree so my searches at the moment are to do with the second world war and POW camps particularly Changi.
It would look weird if hubby checked on some of the site!
So, would they die???
The cake looks awesome too!
lovely to have a signed copy, lucky you!
Ooh this looks deadly. I find with a lot of one bowl choc cakes, they tend to be less moist (and by default, less fun), but this looks very rich and fudgy (and by default awesome!) will have to try this as I gave up on one bowl choc cakes long ago!
Yum, this dish looks fantastic, I’ll really have to buy this book
I have a few recipes from the show on my lists to cook!
I’m a big fan of the one bowl recipe too. And for chocolate cake, even better!
SSG xxx
Easy to make and super yummy. I’m sold =)
Been doing assignments lately so my search history these days would be all things to do with my course =(
My sort of chocolate cake. I love how moist and gooey it looks. I think the number of eggs and the almond meal really make it!
That cake looks divine! Google searches – with two young boys in the house?!?!? Lots of You tube for sure!
My first post on your blog! Been a fan for ages.
Loving the gooey-ness of the cake. Yum. My google searches are always very random. I reguarly delete my history to avoid questions afterwards. haha.
Lorraine, that looks soo good, I want to run to the kitchen immediately and make it. But it’s like 4 am here
I’m soo hungry! Totally the wrong time to browse food blogs.
What a fabulous, fudgy cake – and one bowl is a bonus!
That is one gorgeous chocolate cake!
Is there a go to, one bowl, nut free chocolate cake receipe up your sleeve somewhere??
this is a cake i must make. Soon.it looks unbelievable.
That does indeed look EASY AND TASTY!! Yum. Will have to give it a go. Can’t go wrong with a Donna recipe. Hope your book is coming along nicely as well.
X
Hmmm…What would my browsing history show…
Alot of recipe and food sites.
I google alot of movies and actors names actually. I see them on T.V and I know I’ve seen them in something else, so I google it!
That cake looks absolutely to die for. If only my stove hadn’t broke last night
I googled ‘If you tasered someone in the balls, would they die?’ after reading this post because I wanted to know too! Interesting
Oh, your blog came in 3rd in the search result too!
This cake looks lovely! I have been wanting to get this cookbook, but I have too many cookbooks for now. I love Donna Hay’s recipes. I think they are really simple and beautiful.
I tried Martha’s one bowl cake the other day and it wasn’t chocolatey enough for me. I’m going to give this one a whirl next time.
Although, I don’t have any almond meal in my pantry and I really hate adding more stuff to my already over-crowded pantry.
Ooh it looks so moist and delicious! Def giving this one a go
So many tasty dishes, such little room left in my jeans haha
I love reading the history left by my kids at home, they forget about cleaning up after themselves, my daughter is going back overseas next month, so she has been looking up jobs and accomodation…..
Just look at how beautiful this cake looks!! I love a dusting of cocoa, so luscious. Lol at your google searches
goodness I don’t know what mind would show!! Nothing overly strange. How boring!
Heidi xo
I am definitely trying this chocolate cake recipe. Looks gorgeous. I also love to read your blog for the humour. Very entertaining.
yum this looks so good
That does look like the ultimate chocolate cake, and that it only requires one bowl~all the better! I may make it for my husband’s birthday this month My google history is pretty boring, mostly food:)
I will be making this gorgeous dish on Easter:) I can’t wait. Ohhhhhhhhhhh, soooo so so naughty, Lorraine….xxx
That cake looks dense and decadent!
My recent searches… How to grow potatoes in pots, how to chop quickly without cutting yourself (that came up with some disturbing instructions on how to cut myself
yuk), how much dirt will I need for my vege garden
My searches make me seem like a disease-obsessed hypochondriac, or someone who is planning on doing a bit of surgery on herself, but actually my work as a medical transcriptionist has me Googling away my days researching terms I either haven’t heard before, or that the dictating physician garbles so badly I just search some approximation of whatever it sounds like, and let Dr. Google point me in the right direction. Then it’s, “Oh, of COURSE that’s what he was saying.” Scary to think how many mistakes must have been made in the days before the Internet!
Lorraine, what a beautiful chocolate cake…love the idea of one bowl…less bowls to wash
Nice that you have a isined copy…have a great week 
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously yummy-looking, Lorraine!
HAHAHA I can’t tell you how much I love you for googling that thing about being tasered in the balls – HILARIOUS!!
Cake looks delish!!
I am always looking for a new chocolate cake recipe too, but you have me beat for googling, Lorraine.
this looks amazing, can i just ask how dark the actual chocolate was that you used. I love 80% but is this just too strong for a whole cake? should I stick to 65%?
Looks like this will be my birthday cake over easter weekend, THANK YOU!!!
Wow – that slice looks so fudgey – so droolworthy…
This looks like such a winner. My google searches are not terribly interesting. Mostly stuff for work.
Thanks for this one, Lorraine. It is in the oven right now!
I usually google things that Frank and I disgree about. Also, according to Frank, the internet cannot be trusted. (Of course that’s when I win the arguments and he doesn’t like it…
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This cake looks fabulous, and perfect. I’m one-bowl, one-pot, one-Frank gal!
I have to make the cake….must make it with something other than almond meal/flour as husband allergic!
What would you do.
Thanks
Easy and delicious. What’s not to love?
Hi Kathleen-you could make it with regular flour although I think it would make it less moist
Thanks, I’ve been a fan for awhile but never posted a comment. Your web search cracked me up. So for my recents, I searched for metal chair and stools (French and US), emerging artists abstract, old airplane instruments and of course recipes (chili verde). Love your blog!
a) How did Lauren manage that print effect?
b) You DO have chocolate on your mind, don’t you? Perchance, so do we! Just guess why?
c) My computer history: sugar, I AM a Gemini – so, naturally, I am all over the lexicon!
d) Tasered in the balls? What use is it being alive after, if the adjoining organs may not function?!
wow it looks so gooey and chocolatey! and lucky you, signed copy of the book
That cake looks amazing I will have to try it.
Google searches are nearly all food related nothing as exciting as yours.
I love “one-bowl-anything” and this chocolate cake looks particularly good. And no mixer required!
A glance at my computer definately reveals my obsession with food!!!
I dropped my husband at the airport this morning, and he told me to stick to my diet and watch the sweets… I think I may have to try this cake though
Lately my google searches have been for recipes inspired by easter and the upcoming royal nuptuals. I think some chocolate hot cross buns are in order for the former, and any excuse to bake something English for the latter. Perhaps a Victoria sponge… or a full on English afternoon tea.
Lazy me was caught by the title of your post on my Blog Reader, one-bowl indeed! I love how goey and dark it looks after you slice it! Truly fitting for an easy day
Oh yes
You are my saviour. This is the recipe I have been looking for all my life.
Seriously! Nothing beats a good choccie cake. And one bowl? Perfect. I have all those ingredients at home *right now* (okay so maybe I need a bit more almond meal).
I. Am. Making. This. Tonight.
I knew there was a reason I stocked up on dark chocolate
THANKS LORRAINE!
wow that cake looks super gooey and delicious! will try it out!
That looks so good.
Your searches made me laugh and my history would show lots of searches for baking/cake decorating/recipes. Nothing too strange.
That cake is on the to make list for the year now, I’m glad I bought that book now!
One very rich gooey cake. Looks wonderful and one bowl!!! My kinda cake.
this is handy when I want a chocolate cake instead of a mug
Yus! Making this in the weekend!
I used to search pretty silly things like you, but lately it’s filled with “longitudinal profile variance” and all these silly terms to do with my honours project *sigh* no silliness allowed =(
This cake looks so delish – I’m making it tonight for the girls in the office – they’ll love it!
Thanks Lorraine as always for giving us these simple pleasures in life.
Heidi x
Perfect…perfect…perfect…Thanks Lorraine…also thanks for the tip on the chestnut flour!!! Gotta try this one…
I am a huge fan of one-bowl cakes and this one looks TDF. Adding it tom my ‘must make’ list…
Gorgeous cake… I can hear it calling out ‘eat meeee!’. And with hardly any washing up, it’s near perfect.
hahaha omgsh this was such a funny post! your husband’s response is priceless
and this looks de.li.cious!
Lorraine, I’m going to try this chocolatie cake too… Now is almond meal just almonds ground into flour? I’ve used that in a cookie recipe by Nigella Lawson. Looks fabulous. I’m so glad I’m subscribed to your blog to keep me inspired.
I’m not usually a chocolate cake fan, but the centre of this cake looks so gooey I really want some!
Oh I made something similar to this not so long ago, which I am yet to post. These are my favourite types of cake to eat, with a nice dollop of cream or vanilla ice cream!
This one looks divine, Lorraine. My computer history is mostly about food, recipes, other blogs,and alternative news. I do get nosy and look into my hubby’s Facebook to see who is e-mailing him. I trust him, yes, but I am highly amused by the predatory females from his school days (so very long ago). There’s one guy, every time I see his picture, I want to slap the snot outta him! Hubby checks my FB, too.He likes to check out the videos I post. But those questions in YOUR computer history crack me up. So, tell me, do they die when you taste their balls?LMAO.
I love an enquiring mind! I would also like to know what these statistics are based on. We had a friend who peed on an electric fence (imagine the rest) and he ended up with testicular cancer, co-insidence? I may need to google that!
I am so going to make that cake, I agree that the less wahing up the better!
Oh, Lorraine, you know I’m not normally that into chocolate desserts, but the gooeyness of this! The almonds and the brown sugar! Amazing
My computer search history? Lots of song lyrics to make sure I’m quoting it right on my blog, and… actually, mostly I just do blogging, not searching!
Sounds like a great night in – chocolate cake and weird taser/testicle trivia! Love it!
Always trust Lorraine and Donna Hay to come up with a brilliant, simple, easy but special recipe. Oh, and what would my internet history show up? Uhm, food blogs & wedding ideas. Hahaha!
What is there not to love about a recipe that involves chocolate and one bowl? Lately most of my google searches seem to be very food oriented (I wonder why?)…
Someone once found my blog by googling ‘can you get brownies in China’, behold the mighty power of google!
One bowl chocolate cake sounds amazing, I wonder if I can make it an a mug as a 2am essay crisis snack
This looks so yum! Unfortunately my internet history would be incredibly dull, filled with uni research!
Very funny searches, I see now that you have your car license there is no stopping you. What a delicious looking chocolate cake.
I love one bowl cakes and all the better if they are chocolate – though I take the “best ever” and “ultimate” tags with a pinch of salt a lot of the time – there are too many recipes to ever have THE ONE (though I will probably make myself a liar and claim this on my blog)
Oh wow that cake looks good, so very m**** (refuse to use that dreadful word!!)
And your google questions made me laugh out loud
I’m all about simple and easy!
That looks like a big, delicious brownie
My last search is “What is a Hadron Super Collider?” because it was mentioned on Big Bang Theory.
Love Donna Hay. This cake looks fabulous.
You DO have odd searches. Mine are usually food-related or searches for something or someone I’ve just read about. Boring stuff, actually.
haha…maybe you were searching for the answer because guy has annoyed you and you are thinking of unleashing your fury on him?? Evil…
that is a SERIOUSLY easy looking cake!
Love one bowl cooking and now you’ve got me craving chocolate cake really, really badly! I google for a living so nothing surprises me!
HAHAHAHAHHAAAA…. That is hilarious…. Can’t stop laughing, had to read out to Mr HG your search. Very amusing… Great cake. Want to shove a mouthful in right now… YUM!
Im totes big on the random searches, like…. Record for most amount of marshmallows in mouth = 9. I think I am up for that challenge.
WHY on earth are are ppl tasering their balls?? WHY??!!
This cake looks good (has nothing to do with balls… or does it?)
This looks AMAZING and so easy too. Think I might make it next weekend with some mini- eggs on top as an early Easter cake. Mmmmm.
My searches are mostly food related!!
One bowl chocolate cake! Sounds like heaven in a… BOWL! haha
LOL at your history.. mine are boring as hell right now actually so I’m not even going to share them. Hope you’ve been well Lorraine xx
A glance at my history would probably just show food, food and more food. Okay, maybe a little online shopping thrown in too
The cake looks fabulous!
Definitely making this! Donna Hay’s dishes are always so practical and accessible… Wish she would come up with an electronic version of her magazine for iPad!
With what I do for my blog… you don’t want to know what I get up to in searching… utterly mad… but no tazer searches. In the US, the viral video these days is a cop pepper-spraying a baby squirrel he said was about to attack…MAD!! The squirrel is doing fine.. the cop needs attitude adjustment!
That said, great cake… the less I need to mess up to get to a great chocolate dessert.. the better… LOVE chocolate! Cool to have a Hay endorsed book… must get one of her books one of these days!
this looks fabulous and delicious
I love recipes like this, delicious, but you don’t have to spend hours cleaning up the kitchen afterwards.
*kisses* HH
Eeee I want that book so badly!! Thanks for sharing this recipe, dear.
In my past life as a freelance magazine features writer I googled all sort of amazing things. Like: An alien fathered my child, and Oh…you don’t need to know the rest. I was always afraid that some secret agency would find my searches and think I was a nutcase! Writing a novel with a wee bit of crime in it, I’m still googling rather weird things. But like you I have nothing to hide from anyone, it is all quite innocent. Really it is. Except for maybe a chocolate cake like this one!
gosh this looks like chocolate sin to me! so gooey and moist and simple! ;p
And i use google for about the same reasons as you too! In fact, once I was wondering why is it most winners of sprints were africans and i wanted to google “do africans have an extra muscle in their leg” and what was funny is when you type “do africans have” – the very question I was wondering appeared as a suggested phrase rather far up the list, which leads me to wonder how many ppl actually asked the same question as me? :p
I made this very scrumptious cake last night for dessert with my family. I over cooked it a little, not as fudgey looking as yours, as I am still getting use to my new oven. Made it gluten free with GF flour and 85% dark chocolate and everyone agreed it was one of the best cakes I have made! Even my patisserie chef grandmother!
Hi RedDoll-Ooh yay I’m so glad that you liked it and that it was a hit. And I bet your grandmother has very high standards too!
Wow.. this super delicious cake is just irresistible!
Oh man this book still isn’t available on Amazon here, which is a shame as I really want it! This cake really does look like an ultimate recipe, and is definitely making it into my bookmarks.
p.s. love the photos, they’re very Donna Hay-esque!
fudgy doesn’t even begin to describe this disc of decadence! what a keeper of a recipe, lorraine.
also, i think i’m the most in-denial snoop ever. i claim that i’d never do such a thing, but i find myself rooting through people’s things all the time…
My google history would have u enter the world of pink , heart , satin and princess stuff , sometimes all together and these days for microwave cake recipes…
I so wanna bake and till the oven gets connected here , i so wanna bake in the microwave (no convctn oven there) and would love any links out in that area.
Wow, Donna send u a signed mag?
How v exciting is dat!
And this gooey chocolatey fantasy truly lives up its name , and while Could i have this kiss forever” , plays in the background , its almost like i am singing the song to this cake
Wish could bake this one in the micro !
Ultimate indeed. After those moist fudgy pics I need no further convincing!
I made it and turned it into an Easter cake by adding mini eggs mmm cooked it for too long in my fan assisted oven though. Still delicious http://tinyurl.com/3eblauh
Hi VegetarianSweetTooth-it looks great! So glad that you liked it!
This looks like my kind of chocolate cake – almost like a cross between cake and pudding. Yum!
Great recipe, thanks for sharing
. The cake is very rich and is more like a cross between a brownie and a pudding. A small slice is more than enough, served with some king island cream and strawberries.
I will share this recipe as soon as it comes out of the oven….yum!
Wow this cake looks so good.
I get a little bit confused when it asks for chocolate in baking would you please be able to help me out when it ask for chocolate in a recipe are you to use cooking chocolate or regular eating chocolate?????
Jenni
It looks very tempting!! Thank you for sharing another mouth-watering recipe. Others simply want to take a bite of a perfectly-made cake while some get curious as to how it was made, and this can add to our knowledge as well.
Dear Donna, Just wanted to say I have begun to jot down some of your wonderful recipes, I´m a lazy cook and it all looks easy. I am writing from Peru, South America, your programme is fantastic! Keep up the good work!
Thank you,
Josie
Lorrsine found your website few week back love your cakes thhis one pot wonder looks great which brand of choco would you use yum making next weekend, new fa.
Has anyone made Donna’s ultimate one bowl chocolate dessert cake with chestnut flour .I have made it a number of times with normal flour and it has been a huge hit but need to make it gluten free this time and am hopping it will be the same withe chestnut flour if someone could let me know that would be great .
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