LENTIL SOUP & CUSTARD CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE SAUCE

I GIVE UP!!!!!!!! With me there will be always an excuse to bake. My excuse today was that I had some egg yolks in the fridge (from a fortune cookie I tried to do that used only the whites) and I was feeling guilty to throw them away...
As I have a delicious cake recipe that uses only yolks... There was no reason to waste right!? However I substituted 1 cup flour for custard powder which gave the cake this wonderful yellowish color. I thought that this cake wouldn't be complete without at least a chocolate sauce to pour on top, so I looked into my thick recipe file and found one that sounded yummy, with very little ingredients and was simple to make... Here is the recipe:
4 tbs brown sugar
3 tbs raw sugar
2 tbs margarine
2 tbs maple syrup
3 tbs cocoa powder
2 tbs milk
You just have to boil the ingredients for around 4 minutes and pour on top of cooked cake. It is very rich and delicious... Perfect to transform any "simple" cake into something special!

VANILLA CUSTARD CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE SAUCE

WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Well, I am not a big fan of soups... I just like the idea of bite my food and not only swallow or drinking it. However there are days that a warm soup becomes the perfect meal... And today was one of these days... I had half pack of red lentil in the cupboard and I decided to use it. It is a very easy soup to make; you brown some garlic and onion in vegetable oil, add chopped carrot and potato, lentil and add chicken stock (5X lentil amount) and let that simmer for approximately 30 min. Put around 2 cups of soup into a blender and blend until smooth. Return blended soup to pan and let it boil again. Serve with garlic toast.
This toasts you see was made by toasting white slice, spreading them with a mixture of mashed garlic, Parmesan cheese and mayonnaise and grilling them. They turned up beautiful! With this soup I felt healthy even after eating a piece of my custard cake (above)... Hehehehe... What can we do? We start the diet on Monday...

LENTIL, CARROT AND POTATO SOUP WITH GARLIC TOAST