Last Sunday, the latest slip drawn from the quarantine task jar was a lovely shade of blue. I welcomed it after putting in a lot of time on the other tasks that had been drawn in the preceding days. Blue means the day's task will be a pleasurable activity of some sort, versus the purple slips which are often a drudgery or grand chore, or the green slips that pertain to some outdoor yard work or routine. "Chocolate Cake," it said. My April 19th task, completed after suppertime, was to try one of several recently acquired recipes for chocolate cake, all purporting to be exceptional, out of this world, or a cut above all the rest. After looking at what was involved in a few of them, I decided to give Ashley Manila's Death by Chocolate Cake the ol' college try...and there was certainly no disappointment at the result. A towering 3-layer cake with a deeply chocolatey intensity and an incredibly moist crumb, and a terrific buttercream frosting that was complemented by a homemade chocolate caramel fudge sauce. I couldn't finish my trial slice that night, in spite of...or perhaps because of...how fantastically delicious it was.
"Death by Chocolate Cake," from Ashley Manila of BakerByNature.com. [Published 15 September 2016]
"Chocolate Caramel Fudge Sauce," from Ashley Manila of BakerByNature.com. [Published 19 February 2019]
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