| There's very little in life that has the potential for | | | | delicious! |
| happiness that chocolate cake recipes do! Just | | | | Arguments about supposedly authentic recipes |
| reading them over and, better yet, looking at a | | | | continue to this day. But even without the exact |
| photo can start a person drooling. Oh, I'm getting | | | | details, you can take the best ideas from the various |
| hungry just thinking about it! | | | | chocolate cake recipes and make a "Blackout Cake" |
| Chocolate cake recipes are not all equal; some can be | | | | of your very own. If I were going to make one, I'd |
| dry and some can be flavorless. But some can be | | | | bake it in a 10" springform pan, rather than in 2 8" |
| just right. If you have a basic recipe that calls for milk | | | | layers. And while the cake was baking, I'd bring out |
| or water, substitute some coffee to perk up the | | | | my jar of Chocolate Pie Filling and Dessert Mix to help |
| flavor (pun intended!)? Try using some of the new | | | | me to make the perfect frosting. |
| extra dark cocoa powders, to make your chocolate | | | | Makes the best product I've found in all my years of |
| cake recipes more intense. Sour cream is always a | | | | cooking and baking; it's even low in fat and comes in |
| good addition to chocolate cake recipes, too, making | | | | a jar for freshness -- it's hard to beat that! So I'd mix |
| a cake so moist that it doesn't even need frosting -- | | | | up the recipe provided, but substitute coffee for the |
| you can just dust it with confectioners' sugar, which | | | | milk and use a bit less liquid than the provided recipe |
| makes for a beautiful presentation. | | | | calls for to make the pudding thicker. Then, once the |
| Probably the most famous of all the chocolate cake | | | | cake had cooled, I'd spread it lovingly with my |
| recipes is the Brooklyn "Blackout Cake," which is | | | | pudding/frosting, and then sprinkle chocolate cookie |
| frosted with a pudding-like fudge icing and then | | | | crumbs on top ... sigh. I'd better go start baking -- if I |
| coated with chocolate cake crumbs. Those who've | | | | may say so myself, this sounds like it has the |
| eaten it can be transported to Nirvana simply thinking | | | | potential to be one of the best chocolate cake |
| about it! After all, you don't name a cake after the | | | | recipes around! |
| darkness unless it's particularly deep and rich and | | | | |