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Sometimes you just want a little chocolate cake. A little something not covered in frosting but consistently delicious. There are many chocolate cake recipes out there but this one is simple, there is not hot water or espresso powder-just simple ingredients you probably already have. 

  
Acme Addictive Chocolate Bundt

1 cup butter softened 

2 eggs room temp

2 cups sour cream

1 tsp vanilla 

1 3/4 cups sugar

1 3/4 cups flour

3/4 cup cocoa

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Cream sugar and butter, add eggs one at a time then the sour cream and vanilla. 

In a separate bowl whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Add dry ingredients to wet and beat on medium speed for a few minutes. (3-5). 

Spray a bundt span with flour baking spray (or grease the pan and dust with cocoa powder). 

Pour batter into pan and slip into a 350 degree oven for about 45 minutes. Until a tooth pick comes out clean. 

Cool and dust with powdered sugar. That’s it honest – keep it simple. 

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I am a single woman and as such am invited to many thanksgiving dinners, family and friend events alike. This year I couldn’t be with family so I opted to attend an “orphans” feast hosted by really great friends. Said friends were two guys, who produced a good turkey, but beyond that there was Stove-top stuffing, mashed potatoes that consisted of boiled potatoes and water, store bought pumpkin pie..you get the picture.
So, on Black Friday, rather than being foolish and braving the crowds in stores I stayed put at home. I decided to make a complete Thanksgiving feast in an effort to produce “left overs.”
No Thanksgiving can be complete without a good pumpkin pie but I had so much going on I decided to use a frozen pie crust. BIG MISTAKE! While the custard of my pie was absolutely delicious the crust never really cooked so it is still a little mushy and blah. NEVER AGAIN will I cheat. I can make a great pie crust with my eyes closed but I didn’t want to deal with another mess. I will redeem myself soon and make another pie with real crust.

But the smell emanating from my oven right now is so delicious I had to share it. I spent a good 20 minutes searching the web for something yummy to do with a pork tenderloin..and finally “stumbled upon” what smells to be a winner.

Take your loin, trim it, wash it, pat it dry.

Take 1 cup unseasoned bread crumbs and brown in 1tbsp of olive oil
Remove from heat and in a bowl mix in 4tbsp horseradish, salt and pepper to taste

In a separate bowl mix 3tbsp spicy (or dijon) mustard and 2tbsp mayo (I used light mayo since the flavor will be pretty much masked by the mustard anyway).

Place your loin(s) on a baking sheet (I put parchment on my baking sheet) slather with the Mayo and Mustard combo. Then cover with breadcrumb mixture.

Put in the oven at 450 for 25 minutes. Let rest before cooking.. it smells really good and I had to write about it.

I am still resisting my urge to bake, although I did scour the web today looking for interesting baking blogs and found a bunch that I really liked. I think you can see them on my blog, so by all means venture out and visit some! Once the store gets off the ground I am going to be hosting an entire site with a community area and a favorite links page so that all of my CraftBake customers can have instant access to other CraftBakers from around the globe!

As for the rest of my night.. I just need to figure out what to serve with this pork..and what wine to drink!