Cake # 39 Gooey Orange Chocolate Chip Cake

What a fantastic day to make a warm gooey cake. With all of this rain we have been getting lately, a cake that is served warm, with melted chocolate on top is not a bad way to begin your day. And, to top it all off, I got to bake this cake with my friend, Marcy. We started off the day having lunch at Chili's had a margarita and then came home to commence the baking. Did you know that Chili's gives you a free bag of chips when you leave? It is awesome! Speaking of awesome, after we made the cake Ted and myself went to his family reunion where some distant relation of a distant relation had named their child "Awesome". And that's all I have to say about that (as Forrest would say). Anyway, this was an incredibly easy cake to make, but grating the orange rind was time consuming and left Marcy grossed out feeling the sponginess of a orange without its rind. The rest of the cake called for butter, flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, chocolate chips, and orange juice. Marcy said the cake tasted like a creamsicle with chocolate sauce, Ted said "hhmrrm hmrmm." The only real thing I would change is that I would not have followed directions and mixed the chocolate chips in the batter instead of putting them on top- that way they would have infused better into the whole cake. Nonetheless, I was told the cake was again "awesome".

Take a look at the book's cake:

And my cake:

By the way- later Ted and I went and got our first tattoos. So today was certainly memorable! Can you figure out whose is whose?

Until next time.