Saucepan Cake - It will change your life.

If you're like me (I feel for you if you are) you'll have the occasional unstoppable craving for something decent and sweet. I'm not talking cheap chocolate bars, shitty sherbert or god forbid CEREAL BARS, you dirty hippy.

I'm talking the holy grail for the terminally sweet-toothed: CAKE.

For uber lazy cake lovers cake in a mug is the snack du jour. It's quick, takes only a few household ingredients and comes out looking and tasting vaguely edible. And for a dessert created in under 5 minutes, you can't really do any better.

Or can you?

When I'm bored, I start messing around in the kitchen. Results aren't always suitable for human consumption (cooked glace cherries? hell on earth) but I struck gold with this little experiment.
It takes all the ingredients of the cake in a mug experience and elevates them into something far superior.

Saucepan Cake

Ingredients:
1 egg
3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp flour
2 tbsp cocoa
3 tbsp oil (olive/vegetable, it doesn't matter)
3 tbsp water
Any other flavourings/additions, cinnamon being a nice touch.

Recipe:
1. Mix all ingredients thoroughly in a saucepan

2. Put saucepan on the hob on a medium heat
3. Stir mixture constantly whilst it begins to cook
4. When cake is at required level of gloopiness/cakeitude, tip onto plate/bowl
5. Devour, ignoring feelings of self-disgust and shame at choosing this over a fresh fruit salad.

The experience is pretty much like a chocolate fondant, except made in 3 minutes and without the need to present it on a dish with raspberry coulis.

As the wonderful Gregg Wallace says: 'The road to Masterchef is littered with ruined chocolate fondants' so ditch the ponceiness, cook it in a saucepan and enjoy.

"Faaaaaantastic"