Please help me with my duff cake

[MinaLoy]

I've made an easy beat-and-bake cake (ie all ingredients into the bowl together) and when the recipe said "Plus/minus one cup of milk" I erred on the minus side...

...so now I have a rather dry chocolate cake. Would you just serve it with runny cream? or is there something else I can do? I kind of fancy INJECTING it with something!

Maybe Tia Maria or some sort of liquer - that orangy one maybe nice and then lots of whipped double cream - would make the kids sleep well at least!

either serve with cream
ice with something gooey lke buttercream of cream cheese frosting
or split and fill

injecting sounds like far too much work

Yeah, injecting does sound like work, and I don't have a syringe........BUT

MrsBadger you have to tell me what buttercream of cream cheese frosting is. It sounds freakin' gorgeous

was a mistype of 'buttercream or cream cheese frosting'

make some warm syrup (heat up some sugar disolved in a little water - maybe put a little cocoa powder in as well) then drizzle on top of the cake. Leave for a couple of hours to infuse with syrupyness.

Or serve with ice cream.

Or serve with cream.

Or serve with custard.

Whatever you do - do it with panache. Pretend that the cake is exactly the way you wanted it to be. Always tastes better that way.

O yay! I'm off to infuse cake with syrupyness and practice panache. Thanks all. MrsBadger I still don't know what buttercream OR cream cheese frosting are but they STILL sound frabjous.

Will report back.......