A lazy bake on a lazy Friday

The baking section in almost all the grocery chains here are bad, compared to the ones in the US. I would have visited three different ones in three different areas looking for butterscotch chips, after seeing this awesome recipe while surfing the net. No luck with that, but i still had to bake a cake. So i picked up some boring white chocolate chips and decided to give it a shot. The outcome was not as great as expected. Somehow, the cake texture never comes out right for me. Is it because i hand blend it? I have no idea. Its never moist and soft like my moms :(

All purpose cooking flour- 1 cup

Brown sugar- 1 cup

Egg- 1

Butter- 1/2 cup melted

Vanilla essence- 1 tsp

White chocolate chips- 1/2 cup

Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl till smooth and fluffy. The recipe says you can blend it with a ladle but its not come out that well for me and so i suggest you use a mixer if you have one.

Pre-heat oven to 175C and transfer the mix into a buttered baking dish. Bake for about 20 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

Icing:

Ro is completely chocolate biased and has decided for himself that any dessert/cake without chocolate in it will not be good. Since i cant finish the cake by myself, i did a chocolate icing on half the cake. I am lazy and so i didn't bother to make icing, instead i bought the Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge icing and spread it evenly on the pieces and slightly whisked it so it forms a fancy pattern.

I wanted to do an apricot drizzle on the other half, but didn't get down to it. Maybe next time i will be motivated to try out a new icing. I think the white chocolate cake is perfect to try out various icing and toppings.

Notes: If you cant find white chocolate, you don have to put them in. I really don't think it added any extra flavour. Also you can substitute it with any other chips. For e.g., if found this on another blog and definitely looks much more interesting than what i made. In fact this was what i wanted to try in the first place.

I think the brown sugar did add a zing to it and the colour also comes from that i suppose. My first time with brown sugar and now that i have a whole lot left, i have to figure out what else to do with it.