Chocolate Cake Disaster

I am not a baker, but I always try.

A 90 seconds Reel often is just the bare bone of a recipe. I wrote down the ingredients and the baking time and thought: lets give it a try.

The amount of chocolate sprinkles around the buttered baking dish was what lured me in. Since the Dutch breakfast classic of Toast with Hagelslag or buttered bread with chocolate sprinkles, I had a lot of them left over. 

Since chocolate does not keep so long, the Reel was the inspiration to get the sprinkles sorted.

A can of sweetened condensed milk was the next on my list to go. The chocolate cake itself was a basic cake mix from the supermarket.

A buttered a loose bottom bundt cake tin and tossed all the chocolate sprinkles around. Looked funny. Then added the condensed milk on the bottom and the cake mix batter on top.

What I did not consider was the loose bottom. While the cake was in the oven, most of the condensed milk ran out and caramelized on the baking sheet. I was lucky to have kept it in, otherwise my oven would have been a mess.

The cake was baked and I needed a heavy knife to loosen it from the caramel. After cooling it a bit, I 've tried to get the cake out in one piece.

No luck, but the chunks covered in chocolate sprinkles on the outside were very good.

It took a lot of boiling water and scrubbing to get the caramel off the baking tray.