(Chocolate) cake from the rice cooker

We have found a new way to use our rice cooker: to make cake! We love the easiness and convenience of the rice cooker for cooking many delicious meals, and we love cake, so combining the two is perfect. It makes a delicious, and very easy to make cake!
We now have summer vacation from school, so lots of time to experiment with making different kind of cakes, and just in time so we can eat them for our birthdays :)

Making cake in the rice cooker is truly very easy and fast, and the taste of the cake is great. We will share our favourite recipe to make cake from the rice cooker, plain cake or easily converted to make chocolate cake (our absolute favourite taste)

Piece of chocolate cake, topped with extra chocolate sauce

Ingredients (makes a cake with approximately 19cm diameter, and 3 cm height):

• 125 gr flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 50 ml (coleseed) oil
• 100 ml milk
• 1 tsp baking powder
• For chocolate cake: add chocolate powder or syrup to taste

 Mix the flour, eggs, sugar, oil, milk, and baking powder together until the batter is smooth. For the chocolate-cake you can now add the chocolate  powder or chocolate syrup, and mix with the batter.

Mixing the batter

Adding chocolate syrup

Chocolate cake batter in the rice cooker pan

Put the batter in your rice cooker. No need to grease the rice cooker-pan, it already has (should have) a very good anti-stick layer and the cake will come out easily. Put the rice cooker on cake-modus, and turn on for 30 minutes.
Our rice cooker has a cake option in the menu, which will ask for the amount of time you want to cook your cake. All rice cookers are probably different, so check the options in the manual. Apparently, you may even be able to make cake in a rice cooker with only an on-button, but we haven't tried that so we can't say anything about it.

Finished rice cooker cake

After the rice cooker has finished, wait until the pan and the cake has cooled down. Then you can turn over the pan and with a little shake the cake will come out perfectly. (Something we have experienced as much harder when you bake cake to traditional way in the oven!)

Rice cooker cake, ready to eat!

Top it with some whipped cream, chocolate sauce, jelly, or just enjoy plain!