
Remember when you were a kid and you would be outside in the snow for hours, sledding and making snow angels and generally clowning around until your mittens were caked with snow, and you couldn’t feel your ears, and there was melted snow in your snow boots? And you would go inside and by the time you had peeled off your snowsuit and your damp socks and your hat with the pom-poms and your hair was wild with static electricity and your nose was bright pink and you were out of breath from dragging the sled up the hill 500 times and screaming with excitement all the way down, your mama had a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows melting on top all ready for you?
Yep, I remember that.

So, what if you could recreate that perfect cup of hot chocolate, but instead of finding hot cocoa under the marshmallows, you spooned up a perfect bite of warm, slightly creamy chocolate cake instead?
Wouldn’t that be almost like the sheer wonderfulness of being a kid on a snow day with nothing to do but play in the snow with your friends and then come inside to a chocolate treat made by your mama? I think that if anything can come close to that long-ago feeling, it just might be this fun and easy recipe. Go find some oven-safe mugs and give it a try…no matter what season it is, it’s enough to bring out the happy little kid in you.

Hot chocolate cake can just do that to a person!
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This looks amazing! Especially since the cold weather def. calls for a warm drink! BTW, your pictures are truly beautiful:)
Oh man, those were the days. There was nothing better than coming inside to hot chocolate. Except for maybe sledding down a hill just once more.
This cake would have been pretty rockstar too. So I shall pretend that is has snowed and that I have gone sledding and I shall eat this cake. Plan.
This looks amazing – I am not sure I would ever want hot chocolate again!
O.M.G. That looks so insanely amazing – my mouth is watering!!!
oh my! this recipe looks sinful!! Can not wait to try it!
And it's just in time for all this snow in the Northeast! (I promise I didn't plan it this way…it just happened!
Just found your blog. I love it!!! You have some of the best looking recipes I have seen in a long time! Thanks for sharing and posting them. Your photos are beautiful!
I am making this Baked Hot Chocolate tomorrow!!
Repinned. AMAZING!!
And those chocolate girl scout thin mint cookies you have…wow. They look awesome, too.
This just brought tears to my eyes. Wow. Looks so amazing!
Thanks for the nice comments and the pins! Isn't baked hot chocolate season the best?
This looks really good, but I just have a question. What is the 1/2 cup of sugar for. It says to generously sugar the cups, but I guessed that is what the extra sugar is for. Thanks!
Hi Kevin! Yes, the sugar is for sugaring the cups. Happy hot chocolate!
Hello – quick question – do you think that a graham cracker crust would hold up under the chocolate?
Yum! I gotta try this one. You made it look so lovely. I just created a hot chocolate cookie recipe yesterday that is divine. Give it a try!
http://hotchocolatebliss.com/blog/?p=189
I think I just chucked my healthy eating resolution out of the window…
Thanks for such a wonderfully wicked recipe!
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