Recipe Review: Cakespy's Chocolate Avocado Cake

Mise en place

Yup, you read the title right- Cakespy has gone and posted a recipe for a chocolate avocado cake...it was just too bizarre-sounding for me to not try.  I decided to try out just the cake first, and use a tub of chocolate frosting, in lieu of the avocado buttercream frosting, just so I could see how the cake is first.  The recipe comes together v. easily, and the rest of the ingredients are pretty easy/you'd probably have on-hand if you bake at all at home. 

 

Err...something's wrong here.

So, after the cake batter is mixed, I threw it in the oven for the recommended time and then took it out...and the cake just literally gave up.  I noticed the center was a little sunken in when I took it out initially, but then soon realized that the v. center of the cake was in fact still RAW and oozy.  Now if this were a chocolate-avocado-molten-lava-cake, that would've been fine, but no such luck in my case.  So, I put it back in the oven, fingers crossed, for an additional 10 -15 minutes. 

  

 Much better!

Round 2 of exiting the oven, the cake looked much better, and a toothpick test in the center showed that it was actually fully baked.  Unfortunately this sort of compromised the edges of the cake, which wound up being a little over-baked. 

 

Frosted (and eaten, haha) 

After frosting the cake, I cut out a chunk to try it out.  Not too shabby!  It tasted like a less-sweet version of chocolate cake, v. moist, and no guacamole-taste in there either, haha.  I don't think anyone would notice that there was any avocado in there, but they may notice that it tastes less sweet than "normal" chocolate cake.  This was a fun recipe to try out, and a good way to use up a leftover avocado if you're looking for a non-savory option!