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You can never have enough easy recipes in your back pocket, especially if they use just a handful of pantry ingredients. Whether you’re suddenly in the mood for abowl of soup,a quick saladora sweet treat, having the right ingredients on hand can make mealtime way more delicious. And since a hankering for something sweet doesn’t always come at a convenient time, it can be nice to know you have a go-to dessert to satisfy your sweet tooth.
Joy Bauer, the registered dietitian and resident nutrition expert forTODAY, just shared a super easy chocolate fudge cake recipe that’s definitely entering our pantry dessert repertoire. The dietitian took to Instagram to share her #NoOvenNeeded recipe,a quick 2-ingredient treatthat one commenter called the most “decadent yummy recipe” out there.
All you’ll need for Bauer’s recipe is a cup of canned pumpkin purée and 2 1/4 cups of melted chocolate chips. You can swap in whatever kind of chocolate chips you prefer, whether they’re milk, dark, semisweet or even a no-added-sugar brand. Simply melt your chips, combine them with the pumpkin and divvy up the mixture into 10 lined wells of a muffin tin, smoothing out the tops as you go. (Though you might typically spritz a little cooking oil in your liners, Bauer says there’s no need with this recipe.)
And there’s an extra kicker for folks who’d rather have a no-cook recipe—instead of baking these cakes, you simply pop them into the fridge to chill for at least 2 hours, then serve them up. Since there’s no need to fire up the oven for this recipe, you can keep the kitchen cool on a warm day. If you want to zhuzh them up a little more, just add some whipped cream, berries or shaved chocolate for a rich and decadent treat that barely takes 10 minutes to whip up. And according to Bauer and commenters, the pumpkin taste is pretty negligible, so you don’t have to save this treat for the fall, either.
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Chronic inflammation can be a real bother, adversely affectingyour sleep,your digestion and even your blood pressurein certain cases. But there areplenty of foods you can add to your dietthat have an anti-inflammatory effect—and that includes cocoa. Plus,pumpkin can help your body produce more vitamin Aand contains lots of carotenoids to help with your eye health.
However you top your mini cakes, you’ll be relieved to have this recipe top of mind when your sweet tooth strikes—especially on a toasty day.
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