Secret, gooey chocolate cake

For National Day dessert yesterday - and well today, since it's not a sweet that keeps well for too long...*promise* - we had one of my favourite sticky chocolate cakes.

Or rather very gooey, runny chocolate cake. As you can see from the pic it doesn't just melt in your mouth, it is sort melted well before it hits your tongue.

It's very simple to make, probably not very healthy - if you don't count the wellbeing of the soul and mind when it's treated to something really palatable with chocolate as the main ingredient as healthy - and it even has a bit of a history behind it.

The recipe - a very secret one, that travels from mouth-to-mouth and is shared only under very special circumstances... - I got from a dear friend of mine, or at least she was that once. For some years in high-school we had great fun, but then lost contact.

She and I, and sometimes a few more of us, used to have these informal tea-parties. Where we enjoyed tea and scones and discussed important things in life. Sometimes she did make this wonderful chocolate cake as the finishing touch. And one day decided to share the recipe with me.

Ever since then I've made this cake for desserts and for special occasions now and then. It is very rich and too much can leave you feeling pretty wambly. But yes, the right amount of this gooey, runny chocolate cake is simply heavenly.

Perhaps more enjoying a day off work than really celebrating the National Day in a hoity-toity kind of way, but still I think the day most certainly deserved a proper round off. And what could then be better than a heavenly dessert? Served of course with whipped cream and a complimentary Swedish flag on top.